Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdf1bbd69692474a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-28 05:59:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 1bef7ea0dc76fad736ed1d8651dbbf23 SHA-1: 69b30064b3a49a1340d94263b85c242383d7d376 SHA-256: fdf1bbd69692474a1a6d9cf34ac328ae8243ba89b672c1d1620f14a62cad572b
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including a small file size and a heuristic indicating it's an image-based lure with an action trigger. It contains numerous external URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a delivery mechanism for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+share+wifi+connection+from+iphone+to+android PDF link annotation
    • http://ymjgolf.com/file_media/file_image/file/91876803084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/23168612953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/512d82a72eef17671c9db1e7f727b262/wesileva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infosierra.es/images/editor/12425877831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kocavietnam.com/upload/files/79036278784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eachfun.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/kegejaxoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettotoma.it/userfiles/files/minegekemumusizajusezoker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsf-vastroad.com/userfiles/file/35908450363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waxomixokakugota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urdu-hadith.com/survey/userfiles/files/2863772600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143f3d222b9b---piniwisukota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveranigioielli.it/userfiles/files/xaroxupepekifiwibano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zurivegumifoboberadife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pagyesa.org/userfiles/file/20210901170906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/kezolukotatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/6757821193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://good163.cn/Uploadfiles/files/fajoxovugusopedudilololim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primebrokeragetx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57669838569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/nujezalivovotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpenterstouchnj.supremeroi.com/FCKeditor/file/toxoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210922042540025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narzedziascierne.eu/Upload/file/sowid.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_off0000af39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF39 10916 bytes
SHA-256: e3534c056bbd6b7c0fccaa66a11354224fe4f505796e5570d540de84a66d8407
font_01_sfnt_off0000c85c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC85C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e06e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06E 14140 bytes
SHA-256: dec7df3d36cd13014a87a2994a2debb37f9a4679c808d64689e06d3f59709fc2