Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a26d789cbcab4341…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-02-03 07:45:30 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 1ebc047cca410ae54d323eaec838606f SHA-1: 2cc4bf4f9786ff5d16f850d6a2b8d64931f74988 SHA-256: a26d789cbcab434163e357201daa6f4924746a61b18e668f98270024c7c71885
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, indicated by the 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic and the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains. The document's content, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a social engineering attempt to trick users into installing malicious browser extensions or updates. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a dropper for further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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.
  • 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://maypoin.ru/wb?keyword=video%20converter%20mp4%20to%203gp%20android PDF link annotation
    • https://tajadituzutop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409135/4c97c76208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ledapenilodaro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070651/vajer-fikodev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itali-big.space/66034696256osyvx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gawakugoful.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134757428/sopowonolodur_letabimisafumat_jamakedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mugokirupela.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681863/5831766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legendnat.space/hipnosis_ericksoniana_tecnicasuqy91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retezuve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741149/bedisakunudesep_najuk_gujogudek_bokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sizelelam.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134867910/gusidujimurivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lepefolavexar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874674/lurakila_gojibanaxowamof_jidewiv_fapopefupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealica-ufficiale.site/wijawesikobukaxedufancx5g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borojixupoluba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135316148/fugedux-xewamunusoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerelapukuvi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740054/topimivunijiwuwolagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sefewazugep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135293251/b948b3b6b8e342d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagramsupportinfo.com/video_calling_unavailable_note_8xnwsq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://narobukedezupe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738621/benokifiloderaxero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tosego/709586623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tokudapele/pogil_kinetic_molecular_theory_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/juvosi/pedometer_mobile_software_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lulelepese/endocrine_society_clinical_practice_guidelines_hypoglycemia.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA19 5460 bytes
SHA-256: bc56d17b6cdf026f72a20699b51b8db5f4b26fd8ad0d2fd71d852b11e86988e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAB 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 3ac46496e336ff620a0c5b81bc917d068642fa1b3bd3c7f5a012a7bf1c7efc6e