Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1872fae5300a34c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 05:50:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b957869be6baf4abe46d4be7979b97d3 SHA-1: dbff069a54385d2067d5e5a2f36e9a2d52bc4b3c SHA-256: 1872fae5300a34c38cef05674569a87e941575b3fc57cf5815bab7993e66fef8
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The heuristic 'SE_SECURITY_BYPASS' indicates the document attempts to instruct the user to disable security software, a common tactic in social engineering attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=there+was+a+problem+while+parsing+the+package PDF link annotation
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613742f00cb9e---vegado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linker.tw/files/wogerexajinovojes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szhlfz.net/upload/nisodelavatupobot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmfgx.morefriendship.com/upload/files/suneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekartltd.com/upload/files/3577763455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quincy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78803350749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diencongnghiepvohoang.com/uploads/files/guladakuzevelikeletijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/vinesugeviruvibitubuzuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaragozadenoche.es/upload/files/47732986461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-nails.pl/Upload/file/5603508309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lp-tracking.com/userfiles/file/pigalej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millionsdiscount.com/mo_images/files/sekaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmeticdermatologymiamibeach.com/uploads/data/files/7909748265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sfipl.in/userfiles/file/sozizepoduzawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakura-bashi.com/uploads/files/202109121648023785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianrockies.info/files/file/98784059658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://websbag.com/uploads/files/remakedawadoxuniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horizontire.com/userfiles/file/89202743207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creatinglifeoptions.com/userfiles/files/fewon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/zelefud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotbamboo.com/file_media/file_image/file/59386420676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021090218001273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b5617c37bb---loletuviwepavomijoteker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnwealthy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89802064084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/75088656521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psyforyou.nl/upload/fckeditor/file/zijudewerisigeporilonemod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dc58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC58 17592 bytes
SHA-256: 5ea879aef7c665401de9dbdeac23077fea08e746cf8dbf31543777da24cc504b
font_01_sfnt_off000109a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A0 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 1533164c6b6bce490dc70ac2bf7a018d5eb9262bf77a8e418577abf68028c9fe
font_02_sfnt_off00012333.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12333 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1