Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e98736dd1ab0204…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 13:31:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 9ad9a8bfa06bceb3f5ba8b4f1c9bf40f SHA-1: 4c38ad16c12e739bee947778307bcf760f6dc5c1 SHA-256: 5e98736dd1ab0204325bfef6e8c947745f72237ece9cc84f46772c214578e058
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates social engineering, instructing the user to execute a command, likely to bypass macro restrictions and download a secondary payload. Numerous external URLs were found embedded within the document, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • 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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chrome+keyboard+shortcuts+back+page PDF link annotation
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc3985d1c3cddc2ccb29196ede61ca5c/lokulepanewifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optykglowacki.pl/obrazki/files/vudubemomowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmeticdermatologymiamibeach.com/uploads/data/files/13822522543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/benutivegigisasitiwemogor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishngrill.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/79556256478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614100ef5cd82---87445189735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/1233942276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/47531256872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoanghaie.com/Images_upload/files/27309023115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukaiart.com/userfiles/files/gosukurasivurudegetov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineerindia.com/admin/userfiles/file/gojolefewemuboganetuzezob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coomargroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98290645082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrpennarak.com/user_file/file/63269737093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmyhship.com/uploadfile/files/12795766357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfhu6ab4bqv.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/94651581467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4x4autok.hu/userfiles/files/45572704976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safedoorsystems.com/cmsimages/file/8288110528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/25780610141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yankey.com.tw/demo/public/editor/ckfinder/upload/user_upload/files/femuropozarebide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclubbiz.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/fuzax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bosch-elektronarzedzia.pl/catalog/file/35070489620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-monster.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/84010939057.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_off0000cc2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e43e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE43E 18152 bytes
SHA-256: a4ea090056c03aafdc2c7bf661f3537dd3a5157a7c74596d2ffec97fb645aa22
font_02_sfnt_off000112fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112FD 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 1d012bd5bbfd2b66024404ab946860d0bba91ce45272c17a514c6b5bf7844d42