Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bdd656e076f965a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 09:33:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f4bc90bba020f59e13feadac6adad56f SHA-1: eae6df877eef727e02db773513aa38c3442a1225 SHA-256: 1bdd656e076f965a80bbd69f8efde427901ca69f994e72e3c6b062607bacba7a
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript, suggesting it attempts to execute code within the PDF viewer. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to PDFs on potentially disposable hosting, indicates a link farm or redirection mechanism, likely used for phishing or distributing further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://bharatbiodiesel.com/userfiles/file/juwagemem.pdf
    • http://pc-driver.ru/userfiles/files/39023867089.pdf
    • http://dmkert.hu/files/file/15752119107.pdf
    • http://ukrkarta.ua/fckeditor/userfiles/file/sogebixiz.pdf
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/84824801106.pdf
    • http://dental-forum.ru/userfiles/file/54522256719.pdf
    • https://pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24403107703.pdf
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613069f1c32ed---lawufezagulixazagesipixis.pdf
    • http://perechen-jurnalov.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4513696405.pdf
    • http://popmetre.com/news/files/zigidinimopidezusosagub.pdf
    • https://heart-calligraphy.com/uploads/files/202108311750466611.pdf
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71893575516.pdf
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/88552195995.pdf
    • http://saatgaamkansarasamaj.com/admin/uploads/files/88942314435.pdf
    • http://prochem.vn/images/uploads/files/52200876550.pdf
    • http://consorzio-csa.it/userfiles/files/zudinuloxiwejapovajusuge.pdf
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/7706791246.pdf
    • http://teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/movimejarenelikazapoj.pdf
    • http://baltic-rt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tomokofemeleberamufexi.pdf
    • http://www.insight-assessment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xezozanuvarizaripoka.pdf
    • https://contemporaryteas.in/admin/uploads/file/zekimutufurawuzakikutoj.pdf
    • http://hstechno.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/7845243128.pdf
    • http://careerpathrecruitment.com/swapscan/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83330822928.pdf
    • http://kocavietnam.com/upload/files/naweduforisonepapakotu.pdf
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/rafoxadixewetorovabu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=miui+12.5+telegram
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4e4.bin
ae039aa9f26456e6db1a4de3ae54f957ea795dfccd50792ee5fe5286e72666c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E4 10524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcff.bin
d42321f80cf3af16f99e7abdbf71e62652a311e6ccdf6c962f818c465a6cb9a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCFF 21348 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001354f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1354F 16792 bytes