Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45be8ccca64fda9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 23:05:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 39ea59b3bd55cd0e0f3ae242f4e28505 SHA-1: dbb4013afe1bc4fedc76ae8a30b49dc30a15b774 SHA-256: 45be8ccca64fda9c6ebd848e803dfd4a4aa393b95e7d01b036c89df8fa04bf20
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of embedded JavaScript indicates an attempt to execute malicious code within the PDF viewer, likely to facilitate further exploitation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://amindoost.ir/images/upload/files/27508651760.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cafeau1ait.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21437797186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawaress.com/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7016371083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpdev.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54544413894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watchimport.eu/userfiles/file/29071624514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/60251844034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/69957884883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.com/eros/userfiles/file/dupikod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/veruvupibiradiratufonex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuwanupalakodij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/jiwubugoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongsimkindergarten.com/upload/files/zimalipotalamusojep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayphotocopydogia.com/upload/files/wowowikenusoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.astmalek.cz/obrazky/file/89012816919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lesidegijapifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1-recruitment.fr/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/43354596598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/25801937252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medianet2000.net/amm_prod/image_news_popup/file/46484482149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltokisport.com/uploads/files/70549101879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilonew.tasksplan.com/userfiles/files/lumaxagoreri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sanjuktabanerjee.com/fckimages/file/95030523426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highdeal.linkeo.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/letokadatumufanivemavip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nasfthr.com/userfiles/file/lukenuribilerikubozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=principles+of+marketing+south+asian+perspectivePDF 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_off0000dd08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD08 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 48579c147c187c9c2c7180173dd45aced25601082ee7d0cc22f32370ed51c9c0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f708.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF708 17540 bytes
SHA-256: 5fe39a4bb94fdf7682f79c537267cc20de7abc47c0828c75895a165526988ff7
font_02_sfnt_off0001247f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1247F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1