Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e28316f24d77184…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 02:09:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4749c03340a663d68f7147d983d1f9de SHA-1: 3969d16fcdafe77977c581838ad5a1e6493bbd54 SHA-256: 7e28316f24d77184a47d861840b4e1de868619b2a1f3947e5891cf1d08d73082
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, indicating it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme, with numerous links pointing to disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ww2+soviet+army+ranks PDF link annotation
    • http://suachuamaydemtien.biz/userfiles/file/78446111849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscreen.in/cmsfiles/file/mulavoduzozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoachattn.com/image/files/74023053552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/47157645934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/34717556642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/72221672215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mogalotafojixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demo-jesma.shopcloud.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/makavusagadipenano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/gudewuxuwerigage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/67414676872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.serwkom.pl/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zinozov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solartgaleria.hu/images/file/tunarorese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/50589751473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bo5mvlb.com/data/editor/file/22016725337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b72802412---8970824909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/kilusenarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placidlakes.com/larpm/uploads/file/14430300571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210907214819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trieurodata.ro/images/file/46606089159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sandsflooring.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jajolabekeribulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0512.com/userfiles/file/20210907225101_6hljw3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malabarmail.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15309202623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immo-cjeanpaul.lu/userfiles/files/40704631002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjmhospital.org/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rimitegosixulovexa.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_off00015940.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15940 19188 bytes
SHA-256: 23642b0cb4f2ea94fa243e820b8cce9afa2ff5f8135b1c333ca52a7cb4a745db
font_01_sfnt_off00018ad7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18AD7 10692 bytes
SHA-256: b16ff2e69b703dd934fb8ed5b115df4387472c99dee0e12aa631520fa5978c52
font_02_sfnt_off0001a38e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A38E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1