Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37f99c79efa39b40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 05:01:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0f4e0caa30b972ba88b9efcfb9d1bfcb SHA-1: 7afbf5f13ff59602b6d03d864a18d18fac5afb99 SHA-256: 37f99c79efa39b4031a965900a375c4c3d8b7975ec5e71761ddf711045f45b7a
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, indicating a malicious intent to redirect users. The heuristic 'SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH' specifically flags this as a credential phishing attempt impersonating Apple, with the linked host not matching the brand. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hack+isp+for+free+internet+android.
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hack+isp+for+free+internet+android PDF link annotation
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/82519335962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chamdure.com/DATA/files/lubaribizofemidenafiped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/33873923260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35670447050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loadcell.vn/Images_upload/files/24846859903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/83290596243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pp-aqua.com/userfiles/files/lijenududujisokivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zagorjeadventureteam.hr/files/keridisuvutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/85358694219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domuran.pl/files/file/viwesatugug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alptw.com/images/files/vaxutedusuvezowotasuminor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.santabriganti.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31615641138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/senimugale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istvietnam.com/rich_editor/file/25598495351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/kitazodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abss.pt/userfiles/file/79355986782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/denebatoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b51b92022---zonajixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyagi.chi-kara.net/Upload/files/tuvapapodaruwajukuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinyezi.cn/upload/jideruvukefanutinobapog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://octvads.site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18172470680.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_off0001541d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1541D 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 72abf589614eb19292deffedc44b1894e226b5c92f3ee1c80ec4b7d6c5904444
font_01_sfnt_off00016ca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16CA1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000184b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x184B3 20264 bytes
SHA-256: 6118fbe152735f043bbdeda48ebf25ec150789246d429546aad29af5040b84ff