Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c42bb958b9d22165…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 15:20:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0081a9268164576799602da485b8b14f SHA-1: 7f888ff795834c2fc440179f2ea5593b967e325f SHA-256: c42bb958b9d22165896433803e85959c431f4a41566356322508828959d943f4
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, indicating an attempt to execute malicious code. The presence of numerous distinct hosts and URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the true malicious destination. ClamAV detection and ML classification further confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b470daa9ed---20977585858.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://seasplendorpetro.com/userfiles/87554934090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lixtech.com.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/35224211438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://choragwica.pl/userfiles/file/35133484426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-massimo.com/js/upload/files/75994791364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allier.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/junudomesimofegukod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.com/userfiles/file/76795218192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/47417038940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://millersexpress.com/userfiles/file/27908548279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishngrill.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/rabupidamojudovil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfeerweter.nl/userfiles/files/gasifesuzijesidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elhammagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42191318582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lungshingcentre.com/userfiles/28515932651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piphoto.tw/uploads/files/202109021833039738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeminyerkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/bewanivatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://km2804.com/ckupload/files/21155059293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2e9e9568cbe091936a391612994f459/84996483475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adproissy.emailingmanager.com/uploads/editor/file/70215670067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trinityautorepairs.com/uploads/files/wizijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eol.org.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4271399576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/vumide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89809896986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=art+of+glow+apkPDF 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_off0000bfea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFEA 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 6dc00968b52339baef758239e0108af0ae160f0d05a014c581f423638bc370ac
font_01_sfnt_off0000d703.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD703 19880 bytes
SHA-256: 22065ac3bf4eb1230b7ebc7e93573255425bc0d256eeb81e010b80580206e090
font_02_sfnt_off00010b3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1