Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4912eba94c3e101…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-04-08 18:54:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 4d1edf94e6fddd5f26aba4189d76bc15 SHA-1: c11928bf3103ca57aa46ec81e5fd36d249bb0bd5 SHA-256: e4912eba94c3e101b28894eef9c176f044cfd77da11cedc6917586cdcd4ee956
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF document employs social engineering tactics, impersonating Facebook and using a lure related to GRE preparation to trick users into clicking a malicious link. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document instructs users to install a browser extension or update, a common method for malware installation or credential theft. The presence of external URIs and a high ML score further support its malicious nature, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 8

  • 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
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://jacksth.ru/strik?utm_term=is+magoosh+1000+words+enough+for+gre.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://jacksth.ru/strik?utm_term=is+magoosh+1000+words+enough+for+gre PDF link annotation
    • http://lolkek.xyz/nipenumamupegiw3h9oj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamuwosola.mygamesonline.org/hepatocellular_carcinoma_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumba.fun/xufibodakoxv125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepoxiduvilej.scienceontheweb.net/kinuvisuvosiraxenaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivadoctor.ru/chapter_10_capital_budgeting_techniques_solutions573u9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zopokujejisolan.getenjoyment.net/physics_for_class_10_sindh_textbook_board.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subakegewoje.sportsontheweb.net/88865217641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://bogibil.rf.gd/bible_commentary_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiniwipilanaju.atwebpages.com/letudeturomom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fukezavazuj/92131089175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawefib.rf.gd/common_cognitive_biases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabalegawamiraj.rf.gd/census_2020_application.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lazolu/76640376330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guzumirofega.epizy.com/jujowopib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luzigipo.epizy.com/ginokanoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kujodobiwug.rf.gd/93732120176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vobixet.rf.gd/english_grammar_test_intermediate_level.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibibojusajol.rf.gd/22061905865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nazatolatexom.rf.gd/womixomivoxafupaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gegavolaful.epizy.com/sudelibewesafojure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jowutoneranemuk/cerebellar_infarction_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nogojituwizax.epizy.com/32585999972.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off00011c35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C35 5512 bytes
SHA-256: aa237cbdef8892ff6bcd757ee4c0b2b14a42d956e8173e96063126107e0c6525
font_01_sfnt_off00012edd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EDD 12680 bytes
SHA-256: 01e2e93efae4cd3a5d5ada62ef96336e5072439f759931b6f14d28a8398487f6
font_02_sfnt_off00015998.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15998 16192 bytes
SHA-256: 9c7926b8929b88a1dffb52ec04bcfb477868fd459509337312ce674bafabbb6a