Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36148fd14e7c27eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:45:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9d8d2a0a5304fa9493c43e6b829fd78a SHA-1: 5ee827256c5b92d7058b5247e9f32d1227ca2044 SHA-256: 36148fd14e7c27ebc5d84267c6549b7bfea5e5970a3a2576587c1fb1ab0cd787
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or distribution network for malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick users into downloading further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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
  • 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://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/15945138215.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cantarefides.ro/admin/userfiles/file/wowagibulexagebibel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90659765285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sterlingsez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ganufabimitesubidiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlead.net/images/e/file/zajitux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161376ddd45aac---82066588456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moyamoya.center/images/hand_uploaded/files/keguwimemadokumopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog/file/fedulex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://concurs-euclid.ro/upload/fck/89304957740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16308354361424747314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16327720656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegmsbihta.in/userfiles/file/46315068354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gloriamus.org/Uploads/userfiles/files/63744691950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehfermobilsaglik.com/userfiles/file/dipefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transdeliveris.lt/userfiles/file/vonabuwabugubezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gameometria.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/zurawukaruvodet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supportsystemsvainc.com/home/ssvi/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97569846442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.arcnet.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vewixawonuwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarazzi.eu/userfiles/files/xatugixog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itracmediav5.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65346894427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613221e8d2aa4---53044367391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=best+word+to+pdf+converterPDF link annotation
    • https://www.thc.gda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75365809669.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_off0000ec41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC41 18212 bytes
SHA-256: 45aa68a25e43e485f7c186c0c002cd7a00b172e5a6a9d69a95b916a510b2da3c
font_01_sfnt_off00011af9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013310.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13310 10516 bytes
SHA-256: cd0c03784654eea3a88e64493ab7ea3aafda31ad93df88723ebff358d635cd51