Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc9ce9c4a3a4dee2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 13:22:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5ae33717dfbd9e268f862518ed525ee6 SHA-1: d1a51e3a8a5cadd87d55e66d0a45f4e07485c6ea SHA-256: bc9ce9c4a3a4dee2895decb8bf91a570ea6ece72ee51c5e8fad63720f706f4ac
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external URIs, including one pointing to 'synerhu.ru' with a 'usb audio player pro free download' UTM term, suggesting a lure. The PDF also functions as a link farm on disposable hosting, further indicating malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the phishing detection strongly suggest the PDF is intended to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=usb+audio+player+pro+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134155366e7b---4854376362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doradcyprawni.com/images/pliki/2791088756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baihsad.com/userfiles/files/20210907_040431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133123835ad2---pewosijowagusobupigafage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mp2020.csysadmin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68621790101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/14656074621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melabo.com/upload/files/somulerakofevegovale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofupingame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/vetafatefawukiwidepesufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.vn/upload/files/nunikija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.com/userfiles/files/mupuxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexusinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/68548985600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangnampools.com/contents/files/77748866914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitchile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zojoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.la-rocca.pl/app/webroot/files/files/64348667105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonepigments.com/userfiles/file/mimol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0924055971.com/uploads/files/202109110147406649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikkenj.com/userfiles/file/safenegibawuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbb6ahq3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42484837621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalroomplus.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/5590874746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/26087417736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitness-sport.it/userfiles/file/24917256090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aicsmindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ludotukukujitowirup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210906_200504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metamorfoza-krosno.pl/userfiles/file/wologaxovapejoxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zensushidanapoint.com/uploads/files/57842323425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhlongan.com/upload/files/xetakis.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_off0000d7a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB5 17396 bytes
SHA-256: fc9f7adf55bc3304f1f4b4c54f9c408cdb5ac24acca89b611ae4d2d7c395cea6
font_02_sfnt_off00011c59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C59 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 04d169f4a7d4057fefe23f5244bfd5da96b51b1df69ed04cb6c49cfbb8003825