Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49f1181959c5c9fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 09:48:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 97765dc1ecd25bd1925718d4f28e17b3 SHA-1: 15b623bd0accac8250353e0fcb4443d65ef73edc SHA-256: 49f1181959c5c9fb38a700cfe24913ec65fa9a2ad5b0a37638ecabfb567eb7fc
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URLs, with a high ML classifier score and ClamAV detection indicating malicious intent. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' strongly suggests the document's purpose is to trick the user into installing malicious software disguised as a browser update or extension. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates this by redirecting the user to one of the listed URLs, which in turn may host the malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://tt-ural.su/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20286308479.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkatcapceshpicpg3h.xn--p1ai/pict/file/28694335753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dascalita.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/titudejija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfci.com/userfiles/file/jumakofazumakexugavokani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161349f5b43028---85253060434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleartunemonitors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86878191162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/kesidivonusezufevifexuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/runurefefasapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alves.bg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daboxejebimapisirev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimustelecoms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zonokaxuwugeboxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviapartner.biz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35521813604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crabandclaw.com/uploads/files/matixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imdad-egypt.com/userfiles/file/wupufidomifopimevexotena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcenterdk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/6039430265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/roxulepuvixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konzolstudio.ro/uploaded_files/file/zarifomivumeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gima.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwokulibesuzifala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debnine.net/UserFiles/File/34292251630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternalcycle.com/FCKFiles/file/biduxexefufawobisit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steinemann-ag.ru/kalipavidupisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/9550771007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lidaoxc.com/upload/files/12450307405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crocepadrekolbe.it/userfiles/files/firubosufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/tesukubawixejekiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=send+location+from+android+to+iphonePDF 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_off0000c338.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC338 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB4F 10792 bytes
SHA-256: eea9bdec386b8d88468681bfc9e0ecbd3462f435f300acd85b59cbdadcdafdae
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3EB 16920 bytes
SHA-256: 87b4f122e0c766d5af4d08548b98928f43e429db3e19076740acc4503c622211