Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4abb296d51b4e92c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:31:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 507822bfda1c8612dc7a65f53161e3af SHA-1: 6e96aaaf87bd2c8f6abcb860619d8f80bfef3848 SHA-256: 4abb296d51b4e92c02f932ba4321447c1db8043027f282a9ebe488ea9b3affce
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. The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable domains or link farms, further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs suggest a lure to download a file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.potravinyav21.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tazaralenanabiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bluza-shop.ru/content/File/60579824418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nkmate.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_8B3AC7B53AABE18F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/userfiles/files/kadomadamujabazapalebet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/jelosesadezewusabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apatity.verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46137597161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peisheng.org/uploads/ckfiles/files/6135500aa1a09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianotuningdarwin.com/userfiles/files/92294653077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.39koratmachinery.com/file_upload/files/7450547624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tadimtursu.com/image/files/73563211449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/81798433555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/703379912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newchat.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62677802160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.com/files/usersfiles/files/81173797626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artattack-concerts.de/files/file/25245042924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atavio.ru/files/file/70117412801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/58907054273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613adf9d82847---40019092319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/simotutepapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fee819e8db---xolemutivaredudotabepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsstore.mx/ckeditor/ckfinder/archivossubidos/files/wewivozibeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/33935185117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serihosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/86887459641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/30134392889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=primary+5+social+studies+textbook+pdfPDF 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_off0000ba13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA13 11360 bytes
SHA-256: caa5192c72cb7c3933fc9e773a71e3290001e0404a1c96ddd099cf3f1fe2d8ec
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD7 16872 bytes
SHA-256: c7e4bdb96b2cf2bbccdb1f7fff79857ca21ef08851744f6ae9b990100d5e2ac5