Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5f1cd6b039f929b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 11:26:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ab0564e61e39b52602139dcd3f97654a SHA-1: 8bedcb743429a24f299aea13356723d62b03c637 SHA-256: e5f1cd6b039f929bdae86bd410272570aa1bab80f34924d9c8a698f7f1b4360d
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs and is flagged by heuristics as a link farm and a browser extension installation lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a second-stage payload or phish credentials. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and heuristics suggest exploitation for client execution, potentially involving JavaScript.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+block+url+in+chrome PDF link annotation
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/86450496769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/ribeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/18198545005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saovietgroup.com/upload/FCK/file/segujefenutanomuruje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarpaket.ru/userfiles/file/notifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mim2010.ru/userfiles/file/35059355139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijieet.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32622886197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/65272775997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/diladobomoletizozofobix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34436356291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210901151515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/fejosogofuzibuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbazes.lv/images/userfiles/files/jekotasaridunolipepol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146ea6a8afbf---30380613216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/xobakajonatir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivermilk.vn/tctt/sites/aaa/file/58534724415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vongtaytramhuong.vn/upload/files/95975409038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613860a920e00---17152819996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconltd.pl/cache/file/tosazesenetigemepefojiviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aygroupmuh.com/image/files/tubojipaxige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ammk.sk/userfiles/file/tuvemugib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ispartaorganizasyon.com/ckfinder/upload/files/93677444295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajambary.com/userfiles/file/73399043375.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_off0000da32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f249.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF249 10572 bytes
SHA-256: fd6c87b90e2acad3ca15daac2c77fa2975eb4f0b4ccccc941e6b81e8fd8d272d
font_02_sfnt_off00010a32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A32 18112 bytes
SHA-256: 47edf1819aa15da0db8140e16a7b3133d4501f2ca7a0190e98f93749a1c685f5