Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 418bd18350f0cba5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 02:29:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 08a921511b9f7e15ce7702ada4e19734 SHA-1: 1057c5cd92c95d8488604dfc64e215fb0eeca6e9 SHA-256: 418bd18350f0cba5efcb785aa4de2742d71b3efe34555e7a94f20388ee8907c4
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as a malicious PDF by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious websites. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a link farm on disposable hosting, further supporting a phishing or malware distribution motive.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://tgvl.in/uploads/fck/files/fagobogavedemimafixeba.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7724719158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hak-al.com/resimler/files/26641939368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderieverdina.it/scuderia/userfiles/file/54737845701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddnepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/xuziliwurutadiliwobux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bapassamarinda.id/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/wuxijoxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.luthier-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89236426065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78203986288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generale-bureautique.fr/gdb/files/file/sufumimatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czytamzezrozumieniem.pl/userfiles/file/tanagagolepimumimunox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac238c731e8ed1873d2995b5c5ef4194/tivobowijadosefidova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imailbox.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/sikikelosebokowip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slide-bearing.com/d/files/lumedexanajelezatidewak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradtvandor.hu/picture/userfiles/file/simugibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnam-pump.com/userfiles/file/53363943699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bevagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guerrazzi.info/userfiles/files/1898460176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///23733083126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benjapakee.net/UserFiles/File/50685894364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skalamatbaa.com/userfiles/file/12392803730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotlinepro.in/admin/userfiles/file/36051941253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melvin.cz/data/57382117073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediasingrid.com/js/new/fckeditor/userfiles/file/wabalukifafijagiponuzufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fvv-hohenfelde.de/sites/default/files/files/xezobupix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzmingjun.com/uploadfile/files/20210907_235057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/47771982136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614663477c0ea---80972133499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=ff+file+apkPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b8a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8A6 15196 bytes
SHA-256: 1008cb7983359aa1d858ded2e586fd4e9446832d2ae487d945bf5de721099638
font_01_sfnt_off0000df11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f727.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF727 9832 bytes
SHA-256: 50cf94eacb543fa3d1f7e8212a7121cf42c08da8874ce45874095c7c5ef16d62