Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebd234a9e08df1de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-10-05 15:16:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 52881aaa9ae87f30c8a540b61043bed9 SHA-1: 5284c5ff2490833cb20a0a34953f1f7bd270f320 SHA-256: ebd234a9e08df1de6d24962b955d841114f93e16e916a1692cdff9bcd954f825
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically prompting the user to install a browser extension or update to view content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs, many pointing to PDF files hosted on potentially disposable domains, suggests a campaign to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://dammesliepas.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dokuwaxibovixiriror.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rs-entp.com/upload/file/45776554937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizcsap.hu/files/file/wojesedokegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_BCB0F7ED7B092719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robotsuk.com/luckingbros.co.uk/userfiles/files/85094260327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-recepty.sk/images/fotky/68746001043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/14408328614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/75341937239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10263629775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615582c49a992---48125931821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammermoor.net/imagenes/file/26180758312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianrockies.info/files/file/43525639762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundoohairstyles.com/hairstyler/images/file/savasugolijolopemenamak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewellmanteam.com/userfiles/files/85039140869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/70613891869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lafenicealcamo.it/userfiles/files/14146626953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotterdampools.com/contents/files/kanusilij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/favabonuzowigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19392030955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-29/20210929162452522031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tobolsk.fluentrussia.ru/img/content/files/titoguresovuzedifuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cokhivietuc.com/img-vietuc/files/xebimikog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=email+extractor+addon+for+chromePDF 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_off0000da7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA7E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF295 10656 bytes
SHA-256: cae2016e02f8fe50f71b1a3eb097748d107ba31f86fe973848067854c53fdf00
font_02_sfnt_off00010aba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ABA 18520 bytes
SHA-256: f29f87660156424ef8a740fadd70e4c96a54aedeff32b3c0040316303e5985bd