Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 170b0fdab3bf7b4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-10 18:47:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 32bc5043d0a6d53768999e5b94794c31 SHA-1: b104bda808480020201ae09d68068056a0f49824 SHA-256: 170b0fdab3bf7b4d6ad550278b58ada78f3ad49d156f15dc35f72d0e1e6dc339
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting PDF viewers or redirecting users. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to potentially disposable domains, and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggest a phishing or link-farming operation. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 http://skulpt.in/admin/uploads/file/77461342375.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://izometal.net/mm/file/84514197512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/xixovivogogiletepufizaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/72156728946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhanvietgroup.com/demo/xay-dung-tnx/upload/files/47637041831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prepearl.com/uploadsfile/6018948977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/degijoxutulerabuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tungalag.mn/userfiles/files/31597557978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96508301308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/pegizaxasad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm-co.ru/foto/ck/files/gunozemarasajufafeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quinta.cl/upload/files/tolajenalitapusol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a433acfab87cade7353814add3bad947/wejasibupiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dezmaster.com/userfiles/file/91920082114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6f7b369997e3f6e1926f00402b7dde6/29030884906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/96998539561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://di-tech.kr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/33433618752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1137.jp/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47639627443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastcoastbiker.de/sites/default/files/file/38405692654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestofbeer.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/basefirapekiziviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nafef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northcoteplaza.com/userfiles/file/80886756295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gofetafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mydreamtuscanwedding.com/editor_up/58770110040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norrlandet.se/userfiles/file/vevarujuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://word.mn/uploads/assets/rozoketonimuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+read+docx+file+in+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_off0000ba30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA30 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD242 16488 bytes
SHA-256: ae303ad5fc2ae6a7278874587f4eee6a6b1365e5a6fe9d1a1383988eeb11a482
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAB 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 9ca2c591882c263bdf4736758898337e9dc717f52ed2a2bcd84cd956c95ed288