Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d69ed46a0ca53d52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 10:44:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6f34ea1fb16f2173fcaf5e30c4b51ca0 SHA-1: b18533205653ac64dd02b5d6e8f1d3bc9770d558 SHA-256: d69ed46a0ca53d52834ca4b3261f23067621651a9b31a56efdeadca97227df32
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and heuristics indicate it is a link farm designed to lure users into installing browser updates. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic strongly suggest a social engineering attack. The embedded URLs likely serve as redirects to malicious sites or downloaders for further payloads.

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
  • 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://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/73868862745.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://propertiesforrent.com/userfiles/file///77000822500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1642063937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mintaialuminum.com/d/files/47871028543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macierz-grodziec.org/files/file/divukirusekerekawufag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwaretesting.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210907014636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konferencii.org/web/uploads/assets/file/vugibodadolirimasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9ibv88hf38kja1124ltf79rre/kaliroxuxezowojikekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coevent.ru/upload/files/9097898049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.privathospitaletkollund.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13136293896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368d2b4e95a---732624716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/mumonevokofirexujilanonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biometria.pl/photos_fck/file/11233077612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/lagutomokabiluvefako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocamali.com/userfiles/files/zesitubareritegamet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/jotudogefojalomowidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/tutemofudomosabitofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puvojafatumowuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piauiaqui.com/ckfinder/files/59499889182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonganmi.com/userfiles/file/jademolowurozopufaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vili-al.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/27369959128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decamiones.com/userfiles/file/mitatewofuvosaxudexigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianina.de/upload/file/futogorafavanikaboboki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevimotor-rock.hu/files/files/35521237366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=phoenix+browser+apk+download+for+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_off0000db88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f39a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39A 17588 bytes
SHA-256: ef584940aa0300230481e166e1e33613fdea9d087d6babcaa6c87701453a920d
font_02_sfnt_off0001211d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1211D 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 304f8b8b8c5b887be0b32f233cf5dc23b5e780970be69c97394f943c6f335547