Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5e7ca82e32184ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 13:51:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c8e3b81303992d7294148e8ef3fc8b0d SHA-1: 27bb1eb13ea7d85001734b4bac71bafaf3853c01 SHA-256: b5e7ca82e32184ff309b0b698dcf56d7e2b356d69a5a121161a6ac8c736ccae5
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malware. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a social-engineering attack aimed at tricking the user into installing malicious software or providing credentials. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • 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 http://architettogherardi.eu/userfiles/files/rikafujexidifusuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://problemconsulting.com/img/download/files/dagidigomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mariabeckmann.com/fotos/uploads/files/forisafodofuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insinkerator.us/images/uploaded/file/72572674118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c45a7a741---24931381991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/jemujimebolob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kristiankutschera.de/userfiles/file/woveneluzikosixusew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitepalacegrill.com/userfiles/jazakinobalinulobutore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timavoshipsupply.it/userfiles/file/divenubajamavijebik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netron.pt/app/webroot/media/files/xinojiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bagstyle.uz/images/file/vozejemenifafibad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymvii.com/admin/upload/files/81235481415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0a3exp.com/upfiles/editor/files/vusefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspointpartners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59563269428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilyatsia-v-sochi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/selumive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eatvirukai.lt/uploads/files/faxejubopasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polishingmarblefloor.it/userfiles/files/wonidijedizemagagugize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medarbindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mopukuvegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/jebuxefogegezilisutiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/pizowonopazapidonejujegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmeds.us/userfiles/file/midugajokezivule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m05l45dm7mogj15cielk9gdn48/85142332422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idcla.net/upload/files/6056138048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.fortunekenya.com/callmark/files/wakunetoriwuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=good+notes+apk+downloadPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ecd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E6 18492 bytes
SHA-256: 515f96bb55d260c8d83514ec234c28289e36d7f3441971d5cee2476194af6749
font_02_sfnt_off000133fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133FB 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 3355c19825e335b26bbe99cf49e87e345f4500fe0dbe43f13bb44d6f8b9ebf67