Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f002bacfde1812e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 09:04:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a2ab7428cea9dfdffff5eb1e276313c2 SHA-1: 388175472c26e910715c974969e3e383e82c72a3 SHA-256: f002bacfde1812e4fe8ca732c137ef63dfea406993a1d213a2fe33cc5223465a
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The 'Browser extension / update installation lure' heuristic directly points to a social engineering tactic designed to deceive users into installing potentially harmful software. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to lead the user to external resources, likely for payload delivery or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.gico.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/materubiwatilile.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://suthuytinh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/28019393351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaelen.it/userfiles/files/46805769646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://undergroundtakeout.com/userfiles/file/26372296620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsaltsj.com/uploads/files/16055506991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/risodel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zimizemopaparaxiribegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210904_075054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclubcom.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/18479061144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aceitunasdelguadalhorce.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31596830043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ih-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wonibiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izometal.net/mm/file/18501145548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70267738717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atmaircenter.com/lb/userfiles/files/13859587264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangallagn.com/images/file/77324941198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52188060189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jogagongu.pl/userfiles/file/52782907739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/burabibegoxipofemusewero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://computerzone.pk/file/35398851853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/zokomupegaporabapojaxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210912000923681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aomcn5sisvds59erb14lqs0ls6/fixuxuwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=change+default+notification+sound+androidPDF 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_off0000d064.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD064 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e87b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE87B 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 2f96d295f96f4384d7a5f0a4e6a422cae89a10909091b6a207506c64d6a7d288
font_02_sfnt_off0001016b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1016B 18768 bytes
SHA-256: 9f210a9222c39d729daef2993ab815cebcc1fab2be1c3ae3f21322e2cb5d7dbe