Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d29277ec7f373367…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 09:07:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: caedce84d91a1a0d152e068b1848125f SHA-1: dc8cb9cccfc864040592c4ca7932695fe2fb989a SHA-256: d29277ec7f373367b63e1246f1656c142ed7c6742cc70dc133d9fa5f282171e3
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-only nature and the presence of an action trigger. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to a malicious site for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210916221021.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://drentmedischadvies.nl/uploads/files/77310406172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/69872864763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/selugugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ffc39ed7f---74764474769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jacsonsfurniture.com/userfiles/file/47297668488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/lajasazutej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/tuzuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://no1sushinroll.com/uploads/files/widiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/tewokemolunigiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/xuxagusokitodon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.vn/uploads/image/files/34777852866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nichebearing.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/30927202246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szerecsen.hu/editor_up/zetulisodimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-sai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zanilurogikusatataluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/29358709714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://get-insurance.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31714794942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pololanna.com/user_img/files/46339288720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24606835213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/51613349033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210914005619_462062568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbu.vn/Images_upload/files/33807309219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singlespeed-switzerland.ch/userfiles/files/tixotagetudabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/xuzasudoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=i+will+teach+you+to+be+rich+pdf+free+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_off0000af0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c721.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC721 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 25e6b5247d4152e6b6e00a69f198ac0c840ffa606b2793c0ae0b6a316f9add64
font_02_sfnt_off0000e038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE038 13992 bytes
SHA-256: fd850916243d9f0eef1803268c13cbc2954a4e5d3d26a86b93824adc5cd4986b