Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0345d2408f2557b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 08:54:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a1f8cb8553711190087b112fc0499755 SHA-1: d5010979de87c058394401cc85b7f38d05bdfa63 SHA-256: 0345d2408f2557b70fa230bb5dc00abc842bda4dad557027acb96a58cd2487b0
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and external URIs. The presence of urgency lures suggests a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to malicious URLs or the execution of further malicious code.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gd+and+t+training+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.tm-africa.com/beta/public/uploads/cms_filescms_files/7726444277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392c8d6c554---negekudima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/jatezagemuduxiwajemuvufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strojsteel.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96315857794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianoinprimopianofestival.com/uploads/file/surekirujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/ruzefuxemunenutipumawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domario.ru/userfiles/file/71416810400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investir-petroleo.pt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zamofogelarukeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/files/bonapipuvebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sb-78.ru/files/file/xirukemurabirik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heathrowairporttaxi.website/userfiles/file/kesekefajajoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranahytta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50435896404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tractortools.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54882829905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-akparat.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kaxajib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcm.es/files/galeria/files/73777418987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/valuduzegumepixexadexofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908013119808974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/fejenufegawulewozox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chachachat.info/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18131097624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyerialaplaza.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajirogafowixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibrpjoaae2.specialty-match.com/upload/files/33542608774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisnoblelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/56514934951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akvanova.ru/sites/default/files/nabupisixozisur.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_off0000da36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA36 17824 bytes
SHA-256: 744eb16242de65f9813a06ffb7904d7a02e469d14764b1d21b17648fc9bd3460
font_01_sfnt_off000108b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B1 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 7efa7914f10e149f029b4b2d6a4709dd582b01370af3fea7b950232ec69d5331
font_02_sfnt_off00011f95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1