Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c9205092d848968…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 01:56:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b09ab57d84cdf118cb4885bc39d40ed0 SHA-1: 709ef2c36de669be75d3e6cc0635ecc13e3168af SHA-256: 5c9205092d84896875ae079c37499c1b504235b3b9a391bdf70f15936c5ebf65
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a link farm strategy, suggesting the primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates this redirection or further malicious activity.

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sultan+tamil+movie+watch+online PDF link annotation
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5f62c5d0cd9a463fd9ed33e8031ee08/lelajejeguvefusitaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.com/userfiles/file/wefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermatologomiguelgallego.com/miguel/fck/file/tejamunukiloxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/38844778031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relaxzenter.com/uploads/files/pataxagenemegipiregipiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjbiotech.cn/upload/files/1732836521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210907_064440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mercuresamuichaweng.com/admin/file/tovowagojaxovizojizugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wapalajakuleliwele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/pezokiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwrapcarspa.com/upload/files/govovuduxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/81097883654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijfbn.com/editor_up/33084271060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d0757070961071de00b427448593cfd/12520819638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gshosnab.ru/userfiles/file/xafibaxabilufetuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iseveranscopy.com/upload/editor/file/sowixakosalifofewixife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.palmettoexpresslanes.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51458225293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/leguvolef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/52875253320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vadihosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/29059844334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cs168.tw/upfiles/editor/files/69570239220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/sujotonofin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baocaosudanang24h.com/uploads/image/files/95378215857.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_off0000d118.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD118 10556 bytes
SHA-256: daa3480a919dce0751fd18d7c8b3efed6ba1d5b3341e5e28e5c8df26b528a3ab
font_01_sfnt_off0000e901.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE901 18196 bytes
SHA-256: 8915573101daef8c01a5d2a3e9afa8147978d690c7b0884cb1b285ee2e276ef5
font_02_sfnt_off00011814.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11814 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1