Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 981394d2641ce1f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 04:09:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1402b685636c5108594f3affa9ac8c8b SHA-1: e6866af3bbb57782b52f5d227abf8f6e005300bd SHA-256: 981394d2641ce1f216c9e70306b79538b1691620e857b10ac79fb1700bf4984f
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its small size, image-heavy content, and embedded clickable actions. It contains numerous external URIs, with one specifically pointing to a URL that appears to be a redirector for a search term, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 2 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wwe2k+apk+download+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://liftsystems.ro/LiftFiles/file/jezipoduzogapukubigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pension-chevaux-haras-gabereau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gesivimowowomitikeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://25630638.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/togaxiwapisufezizasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ropatugalogosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yam-token.com/business_school/uploads/file/dadipavutuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/26493788451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chretkinia.pl/userfiles/file/dised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a795d4008d---41695497247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becucci.it/userfiles/files/zekamadumidaxoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webshopplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/52620727344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://underworldgear.com/upload/users/files/kesevutusukijugisitaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/xiwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pujcovnanaradi-tvarozna.cz/userfiles/files/wifolonejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avemkz.internet-match.com/upload/files/malukilojinosebaretuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/12741186196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezastupitelstvo.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/6847824981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akpanlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fowivenavuvotigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcoquimicos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94535229355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://degardo.hollandpazsit.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pedewezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencatakan.com/upload/file/wefuvenekabuxebeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbstav.cz/file/topigur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pataibicaj.hu/userfiles/file/23387016153.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_off0000ad0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c521.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC521 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 1be482ff6da7526a3525f851320f968fe0728ee4c20f2fc985a91397534e1a0a
font_02_sfnt_off0000dd38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD38 14252 bytes
SHA-256: 4edb54d945d1698c07f8a4207741a3d2159cd1f6c32d5f8c92007ddccbc3318a