Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 daedaf069342b424…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 07:17:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 75f8c618f73b2f6ee005423567409526 SHA-1: 82d5f4a6c015c10a9d50f7c0db29544ec22d9a95 SHA-256: daedaf069342b4240f23c05974c2b988e66123ba32f8fe897d67a7afbd3f4b09
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating a browser extension installation lure. The document contains numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on potentially disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for distributing malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the lure and the presence of external links imply an attempt to trick the user into downloading and executing a secondary payload, likely via a malicious JavaScript exploit within the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://100tmt.com/uploadimage/files/20210916093556.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b423a8ba347bbfbcfb7bbd1b09f2682/gepomikamotogugitenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhgianggroup.vn/upload/files/xogogodofiruxefukiwalagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/xopajitavedatugawak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zegaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/4362319372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/61022087000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuathepvangohaiduong.com/images/ckeditor/files/4869388924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/75558103076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabil-doukali.com/userfiles/file/mizowatawivegug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusheng168.com/uploadfiles/20210913142451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimcert.com/E/file/21542895561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/vitewijupimofevaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redemaisfarma.com/userfiles/file/nefone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24670277243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///larotiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walterchiropracticclinic.com/home/walter/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37745225741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azseal.net/uploads/userfiles/file/41139292369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeline-sports.com/files/file/1899939566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/gudomarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potentialdesign.cn/userfiles/file/1632359954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av72-reklama.ru/userfiles/file/1632438282f897b38097bd6c1fdaa9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021090915175080554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rracc.com/file_media/file_image/file/wopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engineersclasses4competition.com/files/others/zakepobitixofopapifugelal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randoquad72.fr/userfiles/file/29319357601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/podesubidifap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=download+deezer+premium+pcPDF 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_off0000dfaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFAF 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 2b8826c28d50e29a9ab61ccf02cf530c31aee29d7ab556ae92976eabc194ec15
font_01_sfnt_off0000f80d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF80D 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 29d137ccd5601360407187e208b49213c896c1447859e958191c991741578263
font_02_sfnt_off000124e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1