Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12e94c6da4393f04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 23:12:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 29048fdeaa156c92a7af78de4f9c0128 SHA-1: 843202fad13d8355c22eed0b24fb677b0d199c4a SHA-256: 12e94c6da4393f04235589d30a9a9667cc0129a8475c38b4384998516c7d2ef9
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially disposable domains and exhibiting link farm characteristics, suggests a phishing or scamming attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDF documents from web content, further supporting the idea that the PDF is a lure for external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • 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.
  • 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 https://bibliotheque.ville.deux-montagnes.qc.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94203080156.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vtja5e07ka740bgsls2it2o3v5/pidosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/85300354494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/kuwokavatagakepukisizap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133170962a8b---tazisonimobovupugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/mepenogisipejobimoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/divenunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertermo.nl/userfiles/file/97538990148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resttour.com/images/userfiles/files/37049695688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gospel-streams.com/asset/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75942021920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mamafoundation.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38925102904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkiwicafe.com/uploads/files/40780482814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/jakuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suacuachuyennghiep.com/uploads/files/jogidafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidsslot.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36854970472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/fexapagexul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khautrangkhangviet.com/upload/img/files/midonumuruwezilolob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/pofefulupoduzobogaxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/lowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabresources.com/FCKuploads/file/87555439279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afurg.com.br/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36877919547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/73177034964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/17539941730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/memidapemopapizuneloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyrosesschool.com/userfiles/file/fobefokiluzirotunanufiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=gta+v+mods+download+for+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_off0000d4f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F9 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 31cb891c48a600ba1f0ebabe71c9906e93a6a51f8f307c8174f008ac42bece6c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001053a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1053A 18608 bytes
SHA-256: c52c7f556e861c2341ea3bca1566f177768acdd0ba75b3d79ada3ba3c7980564