Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3542c5e4046c8c02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 00:23:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9c5fca5ab8bcaf87a9e49dde48c3281e SHA-1: 1e3d7cdf9f40b974dcb945cd212bc6d6b0a513fb SHA-256: 3542c5e4046c8c02a9857f81a60b026df08fe4b70f2d2af55657197c176040cc
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The heuristics indicate a lure for password recovery secrets or protected archives, implying the document aims to trick users into revealing sensitive information. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the nature of the lures point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://em-mould.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64132724133.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aoi8vm679vpp77viedh59mmch5/39262749240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsconsulting.net/cms/files/File/22593730514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spellenindex.nl/images/uploads/83222974700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/pazefolopojomikerasojuxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailcop.ca/files/14762912158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meubelenindex.nl/images/uploads/13260457278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montagnobozzone.it/userfiles/files/75902890902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatexchangersolution.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907015645870075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moretonassets.net/userfiles/3348582419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korvioinfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57012432934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rasathantrananotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dukuwupuram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e62ee77d4e25e74b8ff4b4e2fc786e37/zalupevopax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viceda.com/userfiles/file/wufikulekikote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonmathunglan.vn/upload/files/jezedapewiseko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/32288253048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fratellifurloni.it/file/63743032422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ytdrive.com/CKEdit/upload/files/fawapolunisorapuxulewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambres-hotes-aube-bleue.fr/userfiles/file/91302056734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deesudcoolingtower.com/userfiles/file/88690344967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/tuxararatupetopovutaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/vojatuxasotutamutigux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74575312157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=keyboard+aosp+apkPDF 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_off0000ea1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA1B 18632 bytes
SHA-256: b8032fc4d69a373feac86db3098639e395177b442cb8763f85960091ae8390e6
font_01_sfnt_off00011a7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A7D 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 9ab0da797dbf2ffb3abbe5781280ce3fa4ed439a8174ab850e7e1db1caf039a1
font_02_sfnt_off000131ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1