Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ce17d5af699e17b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 10:11:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 141ca5a2f32cbef7e5eca4707779a7b2 SHA-1: 96e5083ba873d169470747dae967de3ea6c608d3 SHA-256: 4ce17d5af699e17b3e339901dd25f0233cc89964effd00083b69115b2a3f67a9
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'minecraft pocket edition free download' and points to numerous URLs, suggesting a lure to download a malicious file. The presence of embedded URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further support the phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://e-uchebnici.com/img/file/balopebowiwesezipew.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aprenda-atdi.com/uploads/files/fiwuvosojoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136fe8901423---wujarataladufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210909103449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/83287480176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernitznigg.at/files/39859319934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a97a2fa05---47011335485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ist-lb1.istanajp.com/contents/files/54883433449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahgrp.com/uploads/37710970688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recrute.fr/files/files/nopodomakinorewumadetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/bizaberesajinikobabosesit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klinok-saintp.ru/files/67988939142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/venafolur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourcechipola.com/files/public/roferirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kupavurup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/28345574497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarkamilozkartal.com/userfiles/files/polopetod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hefcom-hydraulics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fukafopaxipoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rewiwituwederamikuxisimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basundharamart.com/userfiles/file/19404082578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cincia.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bepizudepavas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaas.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/loguxofasafibojanikef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/wowixatepizavuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/1649412517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macauroommate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wakabalibowilolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+pocket+edition+free+download+1.16PDF 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_off0000d925.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD925 17700 bytes
SHA-256: 930e703a18f902cb863d2be43f2a0d957989e7c4dd4ae2e9bfef11c28b759e9f
font_01_sfnt_off00010715.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10715 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F2C 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 7d13648a27d49d0d32a9586e00cbcfb895ed6a1c4a7879c4a363ba6c2844f029