Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3d6f975baaa6b1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 14:15:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 66ca2b4f246a2f18ef8c8d26a59e06a1 SHA-1: 6897ff063f8a19d51cb584cf96f0789462135ec6 SHA-256: e3d6f975baaa6b1dde756350f8ed28b4459117b1cfc6285a8bb71bc0dd74f144
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 browser extension installation lure. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to trick users into downloading and executing further malicious content, likely involving JavaScript exploitation. The presence of numerous embedded URLs points towards a link farm used for hosting malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://studiolegaletrotta.eu/userfiles/files/tasinibufutoduwaka.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://maftplayer.net/calisma2/files/uploads/romuvafataluwituri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143618a8fb06---47254008271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kryotherapie.net/neu/userfiles/file/ruluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgranit.pl/userfiles/file/32961805881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/dosadojaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healhumanity.foundation/userfiles/file/lanelajoxifabodivokobob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71339540294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportingfoundation.com/uploads/file/gepakutatalivujixaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcpavpos.ru/file/26211107582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.ru/upload/file/65845516481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://client-sms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5517941348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnejendomsdrift.dk/userfiles/file/79602479090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synersys.fr/contenu/file/xuxogewadujime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dytac.hk/userfiles/gebowukiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctcinsulator.com/uploads/file/dalogedesupogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/lakaduvenobodovojipubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ausafe.net/images/art/files/zadavovomofesetoxeliras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasmijnbloemengroen.nl/userfiles/file/39596112002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rm-centr.ru/uploads/file/13493465510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/9586535585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluelakehomestay.com/uploads/image/files/88201998210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kotolantopeni.cz/files/70548470263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+increase+utorrent+download+speed+in+android+phonePDF 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_off0000d2d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2D5 17016 bytes
SHA-256: 807a79a9b79aacf91740a5a4a0266953cb90a290325d8fe58cb60ab3255e6571
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3A 10788 bytes
SHA-256: fcb2837c6858d8671cffe3fd6b5af7179334bb01c00595b9e6977c8c77f63093
font_02_sfnt_off0001180b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1180B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1