Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19878e758f2b15d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 05:28:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: cbabbcf6eb476c299d2f14e669b32c84 SHA-1: 773fc934a832f97102e29403719aad71b4eb4255 SHA-256: 19878e758f2b15d372c50f44baba5ec2f9c3712a55e425048e03446644f8d9a3
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, indicating it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggests this is a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection confirm its malicious nature, likely exploiting PDF vulnerabilities to execute code.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adblock+in+uc+browser PDF link annotation
    • https://booking-news.hkdnracing.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/ladabapalozejijari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/9829898619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halanmilk.com/upload/files/44088557583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodeslaboratori.eu/userfiles/files/81977712152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oris-am.com/editor_up/butukexetokuruzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-life.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91444825804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychanalyste-gard.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/subesewuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4bcc5a11cf0f2641a36d68b1285a75b/39427954405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaadalagi.com/contents/files/lesapivisejusolat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/bupofivegilebaborat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/163092268674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lafiestadelmoto.cz/files/file/wukizolukunugodapazim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stsmcc.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143c9c4bf3d9---53026073119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamdannepal.com/userfiles/file/98983491941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insightonafrica.in/userfiles/file/redemudojowafigidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vin-baietii.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rodof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/61265410872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelushba.com/userfiles/file/xobezimil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplo76.ru/uploads/file/dojijuzonomadonumosozivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/75090356581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtegl.wsystem.sk/userfiles/files/sumajuxolisakafitelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/53601146356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiperaktivite.info/userfiles/files/jaliwef.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_off0000beb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6CB 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 90bf1c6b53c04ae5ba4bb9b1b5c846bc5646e9d9d03bae314d10ee5dafd4b4df
font_02_sfnt_off0000eed3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED3 16648 bytes
SHA-256: 8f3842bbb2c99e825d5dd72bec3b5a366fa1019af49c528c4fcfd41d124b538a