Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a9b0d13640dc194…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 08:22:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 58d56b632ab8d6419c11abb4b8fd92f0 SHA-1: 36f73279a4a51d859deba2bb45f153a1714da026 SHA-256: 6a9b0d13640dc1947c6c2947d8786e8bf869a00bfd1b4426845039e49c56de28
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URIs pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not fully analyzed due to obfuscation, indicates potential for exploitation and execution of further malicious actions. The primary goal appears to be directing users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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 http://sinice-rasy.cz/files/file/metepuvuguzava.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/kimulusiboxesukesofas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaymccarthy.com/immagini/file/27946731077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protok.pro/upload/files/ligesebilati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eldmsh1.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84683395941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partetesal.ir/data/file/23568974084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.fortunekenya.com/callmark/files/66752389066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b6923ba9285acc6a5f046bac893abfc/piras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turinimoti.com/assets/userfiles/file/88024378318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geostudio.eu/userfiles/files/26056987529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ormansagszive.hu/upload/file/nutoratunobenotovoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161375a1ae40cd---vogofiporifiduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/24599198741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rulife.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vanerire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--interpeas-r6a.es/upload/files/luxugagutotofoxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgoodluckcrane.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/rijotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apatity.verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60566794032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/15846092164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysmartedu.com/uploadimages/files/77915175960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdmsrl.it/userfiles/files/lerajitajudagesafavamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gesema.com/UserFiles/file/dixedekasumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/53723126145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stepweystudy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rebidudulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=3+consonant+clusters+listPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b5ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5AD 19232 bytes
SHA-256: 196271bbf144433299528af1507ac921bc615c89908766dea87905c136b6ccd4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e778.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE778 2064 bytes
SHA-256: 5221cc56e96b657ff7c15f49bf1fbf1b5222e15cd7ffd769ce953162a3e53832
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000108ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108CE 10400 bytes
SHA-256: af8e0ea67d79830d7a531801f3a77c54742d0f9196e77ce408e8f6cc8c2bc014