Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fbe2b200ba397e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.0 KB Created: 2021-10-06 13:11:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: fd41a5fa97d6284188516e4bbec6b4a3 SHA-1: cb2f56b70108ec070063e32c3a3fc3815500b44c SHA-256: 2fbe2b200ba397e839bd4a5ff3d827a9a0d0ba6cebab86027b7b5e87cdf55191
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, typical for phishing campaigns, designed to trick users into clicking a link. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document contains numerous links to disposable hosting, suggesting a malicious intent to distribute further content or phish credentials. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 66 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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 http://www.santabriganti.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97183948093.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.tramag.pl/upload/file/20166053540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapaliinsaat.net/file/pofiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintniklaas.kinderopvangpimpeloentje.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fozelulunipokoguwinaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krishnacock.com/userfiles/file/lovepakejiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigbulkbags.ahmadpackages.com/survey/userfiles/files/24288490405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/77154528033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4cmedica.com/ficheiros_upload/file/vigufavewiselonevozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-room.co/userfiles/file/55600859556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b5158ca4f5---90029407218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drosamahetta.com/userfiles/file/lotetefapafotivupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linker.tw/files/pedulobebedipemunuwonuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallapietamarchisio.it/userfiles/files/liropokares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sino-web.net/filespath/files/20210923002720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3225752182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dywin.com/uploadfile/files/78981792565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnarch.it/userfiles/files/56885770748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/veduvedikitejotemeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134080585795---zugamoleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55039306499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocatogiuliani.it/userfiles/files/pugujonijonupefupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wx-bm.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109132254221694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=use+of+colon+in+sentencePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ad49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD49 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c55b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC55B 14172 bytes
SHA-256: 35200edb582a343ecd02a48af86fb6cf968102a01c343e82a6f28d57a1c1feaf
font_02_sfnt_off0000e850.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE850 10076 bytes
SHA-256: 0e290f38c56302d10915a209d5372152d1e2b2d34877594bfa953aa8ab23ca05