Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a53e63ea26e269b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:24:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 33e1bf0906ef3b5c45e1f69ed35ddac6 SHA-1: 19eedd36b86db5610e92cdc9733ef48a2e01615c SHA-256: 8a53e63ea26e269b50cc591c7cedb4942d2f11065f61c1d0f49835adb2229a0e
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The PDF structure and the presence of many links on disposable hosting further support its role as a lure for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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=mod+games+for+android+offline PDF link annotation
    • http://peetersinstallatietechniek.nl/upload/files/ninenajanopuxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenderup.ro/mm/file/guvarifutere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-olomouc.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/marupulekika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/wixibuvizopepitodobogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://producto.works/userfiles/file/zisujabifilimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asacnfservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84485848676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jurizugop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aukuras.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ramusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/zitofujazima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614113d632a49---vasotuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/23593612171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvatoria.by/UserFiles/files/70257196382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/89522323704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leprofit.ee/cmsfile/contentfiles/ginudenufiluwibuparuger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/paxojewomuvexokavuriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icareonline.net.au/ckfinder/icare/files/suzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myconnect-thailand.com/image/upload/File/muwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krzczonowice.pl/gfx/file/wigaforonexufurij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a3db3643f7---40346993237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoch-making.jp/js/upload/files/mulofewukor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maivietnamesecotati.com/uploads/files/52457053669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circuitvietnamcambodge.com/hinhanh/file/79397122184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudoku-cool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73965438740.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_off0000eed4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED4 16752 bytes
SHA-256: b9d9d789ffa667f4d76af4ba225eea23f1425addabbf3bdb0cf8214f9f6bb149
font_01_sfnt_off00011a1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13235 10592 bytes
SHA-256: d3fc0315f00461055c8647bdf4c5c3a60b1e61180536d6165a85ec0553a1d74b