Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a10b2d6d9a99155f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 12:16:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: d9cc5cb72281ecada5a13ca3e49a2880 SHA-1: 16d631105fbbc87976817dd2083e4ef45f2ae3d4 SHA-256: a10b2d6d9a99155fa909829bbe713e8e02a2c573490fd23550a14da37b6baca6
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document is designed to host numerous links, likely for distributing malware or phishing. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature, suggesting it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://tentauto23.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10657932691.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zzhqhi.com/d/files/30306017837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/12574250072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkai.com/uploads/files/75070101877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitin-akutsu.com/js/upload/files/telamawipuwasozokomas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/22810504536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emanuelarombiarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/59374999853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d0db0a06ba---fewumer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/64601080830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learnrkb.jugalbandiresearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84601519657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newhorizonscrisiscenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47625578584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klusjesindex.nl/images/uploads/wogiweferuzuridumeboxaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokalensemble-vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/verosisepalopuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/39509037014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landatur.com/files/galeria/files/42717400244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adcbbai1bezln.xn--p1ai/content/File/ratasujabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/lobukatutojakibuzopubalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavo-bazar.cz/userfiles/file/vosadivabowakanavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133a9ccd1ddf---5075065452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39640373340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armenia4d.com/contents/files/33970994942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sergeisurzhin.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fugudutineza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taxivanclass.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/10282092738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+and+the+half+blood+prince+full+movie+with+english+subtitlesPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f223.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF223 19364 bytes
SHA-256: 2ddba66d5ad6b557f93ff42e3719fc69e3ae401e61ff6a25ba2d88c31c8bc3c6
font_02_sfnt_off00012572.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12572 11564 bytes
SHA-256: 147ab3552359555900644cb84a35cd1f6aba31e987a7da32a04940b5c7765488