Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3452a0b38b83f201…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:55:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 8e4e24c447403750cf8fa60319c8d886 SHA-1: 4941e070db93e00217e9e1327c9336aa57b5d7e5 SHA-256: 3452a0b38b83f201caf55c8d57e051723f75687565928a78e45324bf7f597b54
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and numerous embedded URLs, including one pointing to a link farm, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The primary URL identified, despite being labeled as confirmed benign, is part of a larger pattern of suspicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://ranch.pl/files/file/bitelazitegobabukis.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mftelhas.com.br/adm/Editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68346099950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/34752989057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profstil.az/userfiles/file/83407113564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bftt.marketsearching.com/upload/files/26316255150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/wajuzazatewibiburapisiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivucota.com/upload/files/wizab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aow.infogestnet.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49865796545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trade.inter-ural.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48719627695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialsupplies.pk/userfiles/files/5024616635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/Files/files/54748000964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b546e63d1---9512366869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctcitsupport.com/media/files/felerowonivefifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/66349524270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/dobunebebapobekokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosadistanciayonline.com/medios/files/9391551255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/lekojevopizekifaxinevuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://31app.com/userfiles/file/32897799864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanaspinler.net/calisma2/files/uploads/24731521555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkokmagnetwire.com/ecodev_test/image_system/files/90042264152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncsccalgary.com/userfiles/files/80650454916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/mepugusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=download+download+manager+with+crackPDF 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_off0000e68b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE68B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fea2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA2 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 3a49105b813bde323a10f56d0ce0bcb17a911a1a1864fff0878d50bbf80e76e3
font_02_sfnt_off0001173a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1173A 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 6155a537ecd5136abc77308533e39a26565c4ad88855407d7d32dc4ad534da12