Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32009782ba902428…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 21:49:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 87ede987d999cb742dba9e4e07283ea4 SHA-1: 38f9c1c3e531997c3a327af99b810fc08834f14f SHA-256: 32009782ba902428d88e52d8375d3b0b550767fcf2b6d5d7b4a1e24a156db675
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, some with 'utm_term' parameters suggesting SEO manipulation, combined with a heuristic indicating a 'download button' lure, points towards a phishing or social engineering attack. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct content, but the overall structure and heuristics suggest it's designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://bold-iot.com/uploads/files/202109102120173665.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/42326655468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slabowidzacy.smprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafidijalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/jojeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrecchina.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22516343804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceresasrl.it/userfiles/files/89108483078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthanhtam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/satuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/vonagodesevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grubstreet.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27256777887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/31706866437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021091101424891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kermiradiatoriai.lt/images/files/tuzejog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afro-safari.com/upload/files/zujepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b219c8923c93de098eea7e9c61f4804/62944880281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f6ad45cd00---18162087569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peter-crooks.com/userfiles/file/suxatosiwakigefuvera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biographiewerkstatt-singer.de/userfiles/file/pagopupabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/tojazedalazunefejekakobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/balarurufosub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbigas.net/media/files/2877535090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyd.rs/images/file/88463565861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://truhlarstvisollner.cz/data/file/fogunawerebemoxuvugofiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=dream+league+soccer+hack+downloadPDF 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_off0000e1fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA14 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 6396140391ca26e70e719d2231fcef7c22670f79446c55da7c2ff563c7956b91
font_02_sfnt_off000112fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112FE 17520 bytes
SHA-256: a7cab6ba7a3e0548e82591b4c0c0123d3d88d5d48dc68dcafd83191ad2e7c93b