Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 178b32d73f386ae9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-23 00:56:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 59614015d6b023b79979210c5ea356a5 SHA-1: b47cf980c4026747dcbc740f5bf4826eb5fc92b2 SHA-256: 178b32d73f386ae96dfa58684e1d8ae32b4a9b80180efae21c9220aef300e920
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. The sample also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to various domains, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or distribute payloads across multiple sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://hongpakthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wolovezenovotogovokataj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://andhimazhai.com/images/files/52183296580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/54609404739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gold-carsales.com/js/upload/files/21817442826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://confidenzacsapagy.hu/upload/76156835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chengzechem.com/upload/files/20413028828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dges.in/userfiles/file/rutimumaninobenen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140d21284df9---vugawumukabesefudalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/53289102614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51171620972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kipominemozigupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/61668759267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/zeninowimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tulsarad.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jobavibasupidotonidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pulsekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1952123522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/rajefadazitoxeluxeninij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-tsai.com/upload/files/17843682504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinastom.ru/userfiles/file/bosizuxozitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clean-ecology.com/Upload/files/piwaxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keiba-like.biz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28668966700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq.bmtinhoc.vn/InteriorWeb/images/images_news/files/36550033680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cascatai.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xobasavasivixojakifunux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=photoshop+torrent+windows+10PDF 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_off0000e392.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE392 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fba4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA4 18520 bytes
SHA-256: 94d7c9a174d52a44aee80fc8791a33f9a578d49294f1ac9c5c52534040a7e701
font_02_sfnt_off00012b44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B44 2944 bytes
SHA-256: c7898f1a5e4aff565ade6167ebaed1d082969eb8dbe7b5be03bb108e1e371748
font_03_sfnt_off0001377d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1377D 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 9ad798328dbb882853b8d5bfae65f1667e14883cc2f7515e6279afe67974b8bb