Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a103314f66052290…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 07:32:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d244eecc781488cf8ebcdbfc05f7df31 SHA-1: 6c3478d0404250168efbb203b1e203b0f8b522a7 SHA-256: a103314f66052290d453125cf21db7c02f6d17a94ba71060d51de228e7e87a4e
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The document uses MFA and urgency lures to trick users into interacting with embedded links. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggests a phishing or credential harvesting campaign. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF format and the nature of the lures are consistent with exploitation or JavaScript-based redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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
  • 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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+minecoins+code+2021 PDF link annotation
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/36674484252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbb6ahq3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85186385447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.greenlakecruises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5524690963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zniczekowalczyk.com/user_images/file/7448550072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/62919854255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgrima.com/files/file/47350840697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilatesyoga.hr/files/files/zuzegakawiwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/4813390077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galettedesrois.eu/userfiles/file/jireladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbikhachsanvinhhung1.com/upload/files/1299155761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139616ddcc33---kuzizasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kccmaul.com/files/files/47368819071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78203986288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/2833985178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspit.ro/imagini_ws/8391669886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leprofit.ee/cmsfile/contentfiles/72566400627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xnkvinatimex.com/uploads/files/rufixawilusefapenurov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metisentry.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sutajimozenomeguxibofigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/42026001905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laureysnv.be/uploads/files/553829718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianina.de/upload/file/3585145926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofupingame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/54885348237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.madiran-cruduparadis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22903797973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/78665510262.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_off00011389.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11389 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 71c111cc76680fd5356bd8a60829040f63aea3b4a607a528bf65776b04079eac
font_01_sfnt_off00012b62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B62 20148 bytes
SHA-256: 62f90926e496e87957fe89d841b75eefda66a969c690e4021bd3a28d8745ee7b
font_02_sfnt_off00016072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16072 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1