Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0826c1448f157e17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:21:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 762ccdc59fbd2900cfc3feb644b27896 SHA-1: 23d4beef366cf0bcf94b47513f8e6b0863160ba3 SHA-256: 0826c1448f157e171a07483fa4e571b2c05a8643cae96228f93eacf5be935491
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous external URIs, many of which are structured as link farms on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. Embedded JavaScript streams were also detected, which could be used to further obfuscate the malicious intent or redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9829

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
  • 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.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hungry+shark+2020+hack PDF link annotation
    • https://iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70968236107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapmarkt.com/userfiles/file/99553102294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drhuanghair.com/uploads/files/202109092307017154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldkxzzs.com/images/userfiles/file/tapomixeneduluru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zafirkort.com/uploads/files/15111342213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/72536721363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/fetozaditabesive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.com/filespath/files/20210903102020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahknchem.com/upload/files/xexexuputusares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuguchair.com/upfolder/e/files/20210917065033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kontiko.com/ktkweb3/images/upload/files/zumesit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur2.com/contents/files/96306744684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/89336778242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmsenior.org/file/files/temavanal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/74450182846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161419de5261ee---sakatowovupuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gartenbaukoeln.de/uploads/files/malerorodinenisolomopop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgs-on-track.com/uploads/misc/files/rubaxesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/43843823691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monamifrance.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_1063257E5C8B7D72.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebus.myskoolapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/muzotiken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borgopitti.it/userfiles/file/jivekene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blow-w124.com/js/upload/files/nizigave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songod.vn/uploads/image/files/26021703223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afritransport.com/app/webroot/files/file/68828764841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10kshot.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/josebido.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_off0000cdc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDC7 10560 bytes
SHA-256: ec54631afab7713c4b11304efdd9bbcc2b68cc7908316a1eda9a34b98b763359
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D6 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 611ff63f77cf334237f3a488d066e0078b6b0faa9dee7c664860256859c63091
font_02_sfnt_off0001124a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1124A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1