Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae3d8e44a404fee7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 11:43:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b7ad7c879b370850fc489d08910ca5ca SHA-1: c1441af9239e0f1be5e2067f9781ad059648b39b SHA-256: ae3d8e44a404fee7f3f68e0431651da933142f5c11deeb45ad602acea08b8073
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, many of which are structured as link farms or redirects, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'SE_ENABLE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to enable macros or editing, a common tactic for malware droppers. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+pdf+to+unprotected PDF link annotation
    • https://drisraadentalcenter.com/userfiles/file/93461509069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kreativitaet-stadlhofer.at/global/images/userfiles/file/gefagodukulowujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spellenindex.nl/images/uploads/22984017158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/banizew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylabawadi.ae/userfiles/file/zoziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hockjoohin.com/admin/uploads/file/xalogokume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/5668615954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukulivermore.com/uploads/files/59590030022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/59373232593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvanthanhlapcongty.biz/upload/ck/files/xusunixuzujivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--j1aai7d.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/47271504054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benly-carson.com/product/files/xizabedoxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-027.com/userfiles/file/20210919085035_rzv2cy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gumorijifixugusudekezew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/subab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroteam.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83701092637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fde1a133b6---4990059223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mihalex.by/files/files/fijofufolakakilegeluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saatgaamkansarasamaj.com/admin/uploads/files/60391870657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/buzovipulitifufipusezisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techbico.vn/uploads/image/files/fozabevajedivadip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davcpundri.com/css/file/42569950044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145fe3824e9c---melolonaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pushgroup.lv/userfiles/files/sadilipigiwemumil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autopsrus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zovas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgruppe.de/userfiles/file/mamone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemaeldeundobjekte.de/uploads/files/77488419866.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_off0000c57b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC57B 16460 bytes
SHA-256: 55149b620cd2a562750907e3fe22a616d9625ac8db63837aec1cbb370763863d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f01d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10834 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 0b6ac0cbbb7aeeb59b9707c21faec85e2de09471d0317dea448f3e80a3ea3c23