Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d08ac06f48d6b436…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:23:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 974807a4db4ce0bba5b7cdd346e116e7 SHA-1: be9869eaee15615d65972a2f759eab074da73f84 SHA-256: d08ac06f48d6b43659db57d3b332f7c2287661050ff62eb4e5810ef26cb3f6d0
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF with a high ML classifier score and ClamAV detection indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on potentially disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick the user into clicking a download link, likely leading to a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://angkalaris.com/contents/files/14763953937.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hairfibers24.com/upload/file/23662064169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/mimixasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a96089060d---zatasam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/sofalaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/sibet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://custom-mugs-factory.com/uploadfile/files/81442859067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transturist.ba/ckeditor/ckfinder/files/files/duganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emekyesiltepe.net/images_upload/files/51704435624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biharlokmanch.org/userfiles/file/fefiguxopizajeluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villanakarin.com/userfiles/files/rovanurajele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decom.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76338482189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szermgrt.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19106016337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocnepal.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18157751410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneriavaragnolo.com/userfiles/files/taduwunizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmangroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lekejokokedifawijunujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/vuzududa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csa.china-led.net/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/5873932457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpes-maritimes.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91686142455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b71aaa5916---66749615047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speaklifeiamgreatness.com/files/files/kuwavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edgecs.com/documents/wiborerilanebiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miraesusan.com/ckupload/files/lonomakoweromowerib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belitour.ir/basefile/belitourir/files/14935706034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=usb+tethering+windows+7+driverPDF 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_off0000d7cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE4 10668 bytes
SHA-256: e8fb65a023c64246f599fe4d45efb7f2e4729e92c4b1b744eea5b5c7414a9204
font_02_sfnt_off0001082f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1082F 17824 bytes
SHA-256: 24a153b4eff4800d4e9dfd99011d93d0ba343847e0595e7e7708721455c429ee