Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c295f13bbd2e4f3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-10-16 01:46:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 12b44978d02bf4948d6031cfbc582eab SHA-1: 3e0bfab9ef46c2ecc09e4e1fc2fd7ff8b6dec2e9 SHA-256: c295f13bbd2e4f3dcd3697adc2acb581bbcbb8d41a30016b1a9da65655439205
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with a critical detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities or delivering malicious content. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable domains and configured as a link farm, suggests an attempt to redirect the user to a phishing site or a download server for a secondary payload. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

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://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/31990932160.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://solemarservizi.it/userfiles/files/76910470981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/givilagexetejakavam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linlinline.biz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foxesisiwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kuwaitpolyurethane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vowolirijevujufijodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobe-ing.it/userfiles/files/xedupetosonud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.suep.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11865454340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gdchgs.com/admin/img/files/givojakixupetorigiwogul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161497ac0c9a6a---wogugavixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titishop.co/upload/files/rumokamenevok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.assofmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gupuxenezujulokitokede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakesushilakehavasu.com/uploads/files/54173540189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/severidukedovukizoposoxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/kalesugizijagavota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c0ed9b70b7---65581864362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprt1day.ru/file/46209291937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scantech3d.com/files/xiwijixixofutaral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futurefacesmiami.com/uploads/file/26488865753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itagqatar.com/itag/file/files/kegazitogugolujatekejewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xorokugepososujedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-praha.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bajawazinologuluraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chip-chup.hu/upload/file/lixiforuzifekulet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210903160813_1768615822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/divowip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apicn.net/upload/files/23426627665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blondel-bois.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50799186471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/2I9n2o-U8HI/uplcv?utm_term=coptic+reader+for+pcPDF 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_off0001082d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1082D 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 9e6eedccad6b418b6ea67e1d25823507c25962880b056a467407930a0f0f5414
font_01_sfnt_off00011f95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F95 18872 bytes
SHA-256: 16d120ca4be0a2d0a0264ac0e58905060d845b4b1ec51d7313a73ae85fb31863
font_02_sfnt_off00014fcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FCC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1