Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c49d8e96dd219eb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:07:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 617d765cbbba9cd14caf8f1393f742ec SHA-1: dc320ba907f44d77a1271b9497498357301429f3 SHA-256: c49d8e96dd219eb7c605070a4be0fa032a97323c11f60022f61997680f0f63ec
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics and ML classifiers as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into installing malicious software disguised as a browser update or extension. While no scripts were directly extracted, the malformed stream length and numerous external URIs suggest exploitation or redirection attempts. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a direct analysis of its textual content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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
  • 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
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://aynispirit.nl/userfiles/file/96062811411.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kantipursecurity.com/userfiles/file/91789953173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinanxintiandi.com/userfiles/files/36878606567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linza-market.ru/upload/files/rigedume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/68275162105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epgeptech.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15531483531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sm300159.agchost.com/userfiles/files/fogatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0985028898.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bukesogixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesandsons.ca/userfiles/file/rebulakupawidino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://31app.com/userfiles/file/sofojovozifuzarevoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klccpa.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • http://stoka-saarlouis.de/userfiles/file/fezetobobemowemuzixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfhu6ab4bqv.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/ninopesixuruxodesowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berbagiangka.com/contents/files/lofunokipopeladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/42962235643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medarbindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37983557509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showpalmedical.com/userfiles/67599897078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazdalkodjokosan.hu/img/userfiles/file/lexiwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sangolongphuong.vn/longphuong/news/files/45602558205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tattooindex.nl/images/uploads/79722862823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35140278202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pkynfe.net/userfiles/file/xivukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkeyinsurance.info/images/file/76235532772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+default+settings+on+androidPDF 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_off0000dd3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF551 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 0b8d9fe39d0fa2903943f5b1ddb76fd5100bc5d90a757a6f850757dc8a0764a4
font_02_sfnt_off00010e77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E77 19328 bytes
SHA-256: 8fe91fe92979ed2fb4730eda09e42b5da250d119c5860147a3a1f27647609eaa