Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a886da9b74b07d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 22:33:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d625432f0368a7661bad7aae3229df57 SHA-1: 5924a1616b8c0011d81346b8dcad1a67e065fbd9 SHA-256: 0a886da9b74b07d9afb1257eb75b0a4831bb5389a4ed4ab2f66c532054f5cb4f
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a high number of external URIs, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a visual download button further supports a lure-based attack pattern, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/zokasobubezab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/xakov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/09/02/file/20210902_072343_100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupekineconcept.com/userfiles/file/9158752513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moraure.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pewonurirazagasoxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ernakulamarchdiocese.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jomegagivakez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/61802725237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doggystylzgrooming.com/admin/photos/file/31752084557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graczeonline.pl/userfiles/file/58736800554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julietlandau.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/88625862513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaladany.hu/upload/file/52929575838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natinsel.com/imagenes/file/10602911797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1546770482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/56500540991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creationart.hu/files/file/dasoves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rtquery.reitoken.org/Coaching123/images/files/nivejakizabusogab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.fr/Sites/cds/files/buvolotenepelevebeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soxowefobapasosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/gejefubadata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--j1aii.su/userfiles/file/gosigotiguvowojewox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/31142333171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://putzlappenborner.at/editor_up/580726523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouwbedrijfansing.nl/userfiles/file/85957341602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designbeginnings.com/upload/file/4792367506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/3631317013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a237b091ad---32348648180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=download+ebook+change+your+mindset+pdfPDF 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_off0000d6bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6BB 16728 bytes
SHA-256: 4f0518ed604774254e0f8098407b264e5c23bb14e13e12401d39ff82424d1a12
font_01_sfnt_off000101ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101EA 11600 bytes
SHA-256: 515da3928af5a8530ca2df87c5a0c7d94ea1c3c90f57b8669de5b69b1fd558da
font_02_sfnt_off00011cee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1