Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ca38274b39e2f90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-25 03:48:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8cbc8eb5947109e2a442c8e4a1400a3a SHA-1: 20640c390765cfca47e860ee30fefd869c820005 SHA-256: 6ca38274b39e2f9074131d061e0fd3ce00dc36521ff374530d21ad132aa95074
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or are used in a link farm pattern, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document, likely leveraging embedded JavaScript for malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+sdk+linux+64+bit
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/vonuxixane.pdf
    • http://sun-tes.ru/files/file/68752169649.pdf
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210922150151114.pdf
    • http://mutitar.com/user_img/files/66558708269.pdf
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tusomizumobikajenabijo.pdf
    • http://ylphs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3398596537.pdf
    • https://rux-thai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92493987096.pdf
    • http://faceconnects.com/ci/userfiles/files/10288968699.pdf
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/76739626931.pdf
    • http://tootingtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/38807795790.pdf
    • http://markfarolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/7713732575.pdf
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ae96be677---jawelibamid.pdf
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn---42-5cdakyymnnb9ake1az.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81249413305.pdf
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/file/10809536719.pdf
    • http://tochalco.com/uploads/files/pubibizuzepebunasimired.pdf
    • http://franceplus.fr/userfiles/file/83936748597.pdf
    • http://sreema.org/FCKeditor/file/ruxigexutafi.pdf
    • http://hoanhaochemical.com/uploads/files/movixiv.pdf
    • http://ominocoibaffi.it/userfiles/files/femovevomovofufuzezoto.pdf
    • https://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87633364546.pdf
    • http://okna-kurska.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/14664604619.pdf
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/12687660393.pdf
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b248d89b6---91795309723.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b2ce.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2CE 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cae0.bin
8eee9021e317c2317a1ccefdf8906cb35b5bd3512926af86f5df0bd09e217975
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAE0 17288 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7e4.bin
fce5f43f488683857dcaad574014c133faf17f6d383d8476c008aec424ef278c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E4 10608 bytes