Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf30a78a9fa34b93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.1 KB Created: 2021-09-24 05:22:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 70b17de4325e09585c3e5d7e580e76f2 SHA-1: d82102a48bbf57c47d1e2fea57e467e27fa9424f SHA-256: bf30a78a9fa34b93b21b0d1777c15b650b4aa451360d5096dcba4c21cfd1dac3
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document attempts to trick the user into installing a browser extension or update. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs, some pointing to PDF files on potentially disposable domains, suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific social engineering tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://sunrise-photon.com/upfiles/editor/files/lanujepufisosijepix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akcompany.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/38732048671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-tsai.com/upload/files/dezokanugaxidiwabuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gadago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsport.eu/yonexshop/static/file/7065152921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circuitoinsulargc.com/documentos/file/48668853773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0a2acc595b3e3df7ed5ef33d31bf758/51316565151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/91994399191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/larafemirazesixeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.ca/upload/editor/file/fomixikuvelepuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avesta-hmora.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/tubidivadimota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/nakagomanegejur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/9455066325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massintech.ru/img/outer/files/wosunedobovonozoxapawomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xlpe.net/Images_upload/files/81273247666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichibaninfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58760182562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunapvietnam.thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/jasatamirepejipojibivogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingbikeonline.com/images/upload/File/35982439914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingpoggi.eu/userfiles/files/28674689876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domuran.pl/files/file/bonodejunem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biogenetec.tw/image/files/20210922_195741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbaze.lv/images/userfiles/files/5750035197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stomerijindex.nl/images/uploads/vuvexamiforuvudixulowij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://es21sys.com/userfiles/file/46983628532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=windows+update+windows+8.1PDF 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_off000156d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016ee9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16EE9 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 366757293b4ad8967bbe388ae1ec3c7b61e95fd988055e0b9f3cea9bdf07da48
font_02_sfnt_off000187da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x187DA 18184 bytes
SHA-256: 0f56408a3254ed52da4d00e3e89946468eeb5fec4d990809a9bc806f636e221c