Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eaca34480eaf9c33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 06:38:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0b73470203d6a2b51326d2ec85b40715 SHA-1: 7b8aa7a2346b1bb323ac49452f55c16b96491bc9 SHA-256: eaca34480eaf9c3391236e2163abab9661e204d9266f0121f126a317c746e5de
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on potentially disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The 'SE_FAKE_CAPTCHA' heuristic indicates the document presents a fake verification prompt to trick users into executing further actions, likely to download a second-stage payload. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the heuristics and the embedded URLs strongly suggest an attempt to exploit the user through social engineering and potentially client-side vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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
  • Fake CAPTCHA / human verification prompt high SE_FAKE_CAPTCHA
    Document displays a fake CAPTCHA or human-verification prompt — used to trick users into running commands or pressing keyboard shortcuts
  • 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://woodlander.sk/grafika/file/22032461256.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sapporomn.com/userfiles/files/fefemumafolutixilava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumtinathholidays.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/13871619296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istvietnam.com/rich_editor/file/36452006654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiantoanttk.com/uploads/files/66422728269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpjseah.news-read.com/upload/files/48238672996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6211acdf6ca362a3bd0679568fbe7cb5/fumubenamugajorome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eggtesting.com/admin/uploads/file/jalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltic-rt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32499610215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37487902542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmke.cz/pictures/files/waxokifodadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://egitara.com/upfiles/files/51600232579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itexpertdog.nwoasis.com/upload/files/13686063125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbtfilm.com/uploads/files/xeledofurukezifurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.instalacionescueto.com/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1968892149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/tidonadinoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odontotecnicacoop.it/userfiles/file/pifupajegidiporufuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/pifebadoxuxuforut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/jarozoxeviwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alconsprom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tagitibepejolifozobuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://na3.it/misc/file/24383875090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chungcungoaigiao.vnpec.xyz/uploads/files/42172062407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://er-cardiff.com/eurostyl/photos/file/vojarokekexumejopuxexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13635298277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210921113450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=american+cc+generatorPDF 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_off0000d6d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEEF 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 25e5df1bfb4f826c938c7bfccdffc9b57d1247d9b7cc5d8870e8381accc0ad23
font_02_sfnt_off00010643.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10643 17704 bytes
SHA-256: 3af4b79b88281239eca5c99de9ffc91ac6617d19506069adc5faf522a486329e