Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14837f1b64e21679…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 02:15:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0cfd08abc14bdd8f574daaf9e20f12c6 SHA-1: f540550b9d232c8adec980dc2beceac27e032de1 SHA-256: 14837f1b64e2167918e43b2d7110c1f483480aee3d33ac30fa615900826cabf8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or appear to be part of a link farm, indicating a malicious intent to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely a phishing lure or a dropper for further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards an attempt to exploit users via malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://australiancaravancentre.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81565127210.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/1138991040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37849020291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/858fe836b5bf315556d573904d14d879/warapesilagapesorabomirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/75641467043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inteko-tula.ru/f/file/nebunelowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdpq.hungminhits.com/files/uploaded/files/laxudarevifenuromo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ride-on-earth.com/images/blog/file/logisukoxejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoannalisatinelli.it/userfiles/files/34572820611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurmateng.com/contents/files/50809214170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitepalacegrill.com/userfiles/kupuzamupumizirifelif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limadelimon.com/images/file/89553358064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digicpictures.com/downloads/vizijamekegabonijuvuvutid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c22d8a259---bifawovadijugenuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willes-gb.com/uploads/files/202109012220103840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/42555321937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/88415169399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/18123940422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumtinathholidays.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/vikixilivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/24715488932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpollopaulino.com/cenavarra_userfiles/files/vugugilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudrun.com/home/mud/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vufidosilovetedalemalijup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polresseluma.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/meronidoduburesudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonelektro.hu/files/file/sifajadigevadav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theemasternetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72420108737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+excel+softwarePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB887 17876 bytes
SHA-256: e220ba111e5e5a04b254b18de5df748ef3f1dddab29c9138a82388d878222829
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDE 10460 bytes
SHA-256: ee43267b2eee8f104819a53db9127458c5644b370e241b766a11e21b23ce8751
font_03_sfnt_off000103df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103DF 15880 bytes
SHA-256: 8b4af7dd5f01eb932ccc819f36bac296fdc568e1efda4b0010df1d22f7d00e0e