Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f4580c77ab584ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-10-06 23:14:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 02fc1adb9aa64bcf4f9b0a23e178d097 SHA-1: f0ca851dec4e9ecff9df1356a6b758a820244a95 SHA-256: 3f4580c77ab584ef5ab104e173aef4c6a20cb0d788ba3c6cfabeca418fb86096
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs. The PDF structure suggests it acts as a link farm, directing users to various external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript points to its use in exploiting PDF vulnerabilities or delivering malicious code.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+cut+your+hair+in+ark PDF link annotation
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f7d8299f31d824c475bd06fc0f091d7/lelusut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tufaghanafc.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40294841686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charugarware.com/DEVELOPMENT/charu_garware/uploaded/userfiles/file/tivagaparawawufevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glassick.com/userfiles/file/85867298657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://printrun.nl/userfiles/files/noludubosirojozusika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fangjin.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/balelubemonuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watchimport.eu/userfiles/file/gapajotodofiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://systempro.kr/userData/board/file/lebelobud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kite-surf.sk/files/49969532659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cps-mbstu.edu.bd/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/numokizetupevowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompassztuki.pl/Image/files/13499989323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea0675f1e5ae6f2d444d147caa9a3629/janadulixibusugomeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/44021472674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21885550135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.com/Images_upload/files/vajupuvifusoxutogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbp.dropship-online.com/userfiles/files/53874007397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpkoaee.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tupeguwisinonusatobupeket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helderlive.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22918573532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelexpert.ro/uploads/files/38714219110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapet.hu/files/leburizufevog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/23496198834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sherwoodchamber.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12624764336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/60529902477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacola.com/upload/files/fapudidupefidezajot.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_off0000d814.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD814 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 522d0c816f70c7ac7afbc92cf04f37da936befb898d6d6eef492d4f6fec5a284
font_01_sfnt_off0000efee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010800.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10800 19616 bytes
SHA-256: f8f3dc540b645fe0928c2619b39f686301be1716e584b21d2312eb034af5c9b9