Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd334bd5d73e9a04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-10-07 02:26:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: ba828427803497f3c27995a021ba0962 SHA-1: e62672dbf20d24931d24fc0784cbae2f47ebc98d SHA-256: dd334bd5d73e9a049bae4eb080a6e6c8efead0072f47f4ab22b41aa143591b8a
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it uses a browser extension installation lure. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the lure suggests an attempt to trick the user into executing malicious code or providing credentials. The presence of numerous external URLs, many pointing to PDF files on potentially disposable hosting, further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://vietsinphar.com/uploads/files/65021419960.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://protrialse.eu/files/files/jexejux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/dugosebopimuwejawukosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madveras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85218896402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acrclubinversores.com/files/galeria/files/56202192165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bengalroys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wunukoridakut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5udua.com/contents/files/togob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanabi-la.com/uploads/files/xuxizijevijonorojifiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/vupobejuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaukitchen.com/uploads/files/67351419530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sospapa24.com/lib/ckfinder/imgupload/files/vefofekomomuvepabajebaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayinbranson.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/87557086001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindahsatu.com/contents/files/63921510463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/rotativamesoviwilab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donleroy.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/31706317858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oralrem.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99221523229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gosapahostel.com/userfiles/file/famemuwukagexejak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/42189318721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0532.com/userfiles/file/20210911002855_kzgy14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://8njl.com/userfiles/files/pabed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orkoien.com/userfiles/files/rokosovikawedefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/wodakalagilamaluxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giovanninociti.com/userfiles/files/91736166798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://showdetango.com/bafa/userfiles/file/40266459747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=digital+and+analog+communication+systems+couch+solution+manualPDF 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_off0000e1b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1B1 10932 bytes
SHA-256: b50f7bcf54730380a6abda57024579576635ce38fd0b8c58af57730eb5f33af3
font_01_sfnt_off0000faa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA5 19868 bytes
SHA-256: a659f19ea610ae99cc14f88cd71182472033417b6a65640168f12b02ee0a21f5
font_02_sfnt_off00012e91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1