Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c888ae6137b3abb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 06:00:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3432edb101fb2dcbf78b05b2512f767a SHA-1: 6c294fb04b58cdd1eecabcc8ccccc5f291542073 SHA-256: c888ae6137b3abb18d08d538e3c97d0ef915b724f2cf69795ceaf0153270a205
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to PDF files on potentially disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://smartstone.ca/userfiles/files/34679032449.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jackinthegymtpe.com/uploads/files/202109111422289847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tch.lu/files/files/10573109140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-promotions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/najogixedulelozifofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.giuseppe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pigonofeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jills.reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/42612203976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/motololofavejetuvobolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324d336c75e---65738434594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idukkidiocese.org/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33292214712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodlandhills.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/94108778958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tierrettung-in-katalonien.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dafezerewozeruse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0286869143.com/editor_images/files/78550682103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospelpour100voix.com/fichiers/newsletter/file/56399653968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saga.diamonds/uploads/ckfinder/files/detirizanoxemajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalgroupautos.com/files/others/40427128468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctcitsupport.com/media/files/zivuxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.com/contents/files/ferivowigufaputekonojas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snp-ent.com/files/fckeditor/file/41517697861317457cc457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkeyinsurance.info/images/file/buvutij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipea.kr/userData/board/file/30640513614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150003.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210907104657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opersan.com/file/31646289797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaku3c.tw/uploads/files/202109081200361348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chezgregoire.fr/userfiles/dejatokikoxowenalano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=dead+or+alive+xtreme+apkPDF link annotation
    • http://s250801404.onlinehome.fr/img/uploaded/file/taxilugapikibuvukibuni.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_off0000da27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA27 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 26b15f203784c13758aed9f4f94fdd7c7138a492e66e0ec1104142ed6f943c13
font_01_sfnt_off0000f223.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF223 19092 bytes
SHA-256: a22d1e5fa1177892cb7e650f62e33a677b4f90001dc6cf705324e5de1bb5fb12
font_02_sfnt_off00012479.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12479 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1