Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2eb9591cb8de9d39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 10:27:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: bccce5b017ec95727b50c2cd399eb2df SHA-1: 5fda63d65974b2e1075b9e70a58e1db61a9fe395 SHA-256: 2eb9591cb8de9d39ee9914018528a2603068641b859cc6870d8e8d13b442924b
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, one of which is associated with an adblocker lure. The primary attack pattern involves social engineering to trick users into installing a browser extension or update, a common method for credential theft or malware installation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adblock+chrome+free+windows+10 PDF link annotation
    • https://mobilaide.com/upload/editor/file/56910021529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualityroofinnandsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/69883226208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartementslisa.it/an3_Uploads/file/13318557613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613582aac3223---34707626591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ht-cooling-j3t.com/contents/files/50976010041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daugiavanthienphuoc.com/media/ftp/file/98778126770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.naabelectric.com/userfiles/files/54860165688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.de/catalog/file/jamanexajetal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39500256017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tybistanbul.org/resimler/files/vugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecksco.com/upload/files/2990955741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/mojuwuforikuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.seblocation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mofebibuzofaxunebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonlaval.com/userfiles/files/75319972730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mastirz.com/userfiles/files/24457176862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicyazd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32992377161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casavacanzesanvito.eu/userfiles/files/rifosupuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costruzionibulagna.it/userfiles/files/97664575357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/lilidom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wetaguvorufuposokovedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138e2953cab4---wikufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.com/media/ftp/file/ditobobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telenovella-bg.com/files/pisafafirumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5CF 10956 bytes
SHA-256: e870cafb699054ef1bd1ae899357db99ea57a69f973642a06241a8d713abbaaf
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF12 17256 bytes
SHA-256: 5be4469e26c1e8a373da6d465a707fc31cbe925aba48b0d8bb559a6309495034
font_02_sfnt_off00011b6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1