Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1be3a051792ce6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.8 KB Created: 2021-09-27 16:02:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 89077b1a960575ad0e9eaf79573c10ca SHA-1: 87f80803f041d6dd23d059d5facaa103568e4130 SHA-256: e1be3a051792ce6c9d32a5c30ab228aedb68baf7f1ae624fae97ff213b1dd6bc
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF employs an image-based lure, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. Heuristics indicate it's a small, image-heavy document designed to hide clickable actions. The presence of numerous external URLs, many on disposable hosting, further supports a malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further stages. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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
  • 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 66 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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+os+series PDF link annotation
    • http://gruppocaminiti.it/userfiles/files/gomivomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bm-shower.com/userfiles/files/37784078512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maytinhdalat.vn/images/uploads/files/moremajowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18737174200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidropro.hu/upload/vewilufolewazefalosisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/26163157462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paintingwithapassion.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/kupoxuluvuwumutabobegibas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fukomipudadaxeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301b151b3a0---vigom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137482ea4cdd---33409742123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/79364563204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/50289301722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kejevipizolage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroykap.com/application/views/stroykap/userfiles/file/renesibewudejutapamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemingdecal.com/uploads/assets/file/40836763918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/luxezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/buvapuguxome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/8307008291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/subujerovugixipuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcm.es/files/galeria/files/4556886937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kar360.com/resimler/files/ziwoxigotaxobom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.com/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/tatajovegalisiwalasad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/61325966489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ac70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC70 9916 bytes
SHA-256: ec52e4290de1498cf32c199da8f29773521369aa1a4d7bbe617c2564ecadaf9c
font_01_sfnt_off0000c268.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC268 14224 bytes
SHA-256: f65a1f03bc74d75d77992cdc887d17836a37d54cd2cb3baf10c04807714bf2b6
font_02_sfnt_off0000e5d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1