Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8e182d7cd345540…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 08:53:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 4522e0702167ad052452eb46ad623abd SHA-1: b37120f7a7e8a73fbba4f3c072c853f2ef1fcc9e SHA-256: c8e182d7cd34554032988cbe0478b9710d5fcf4ec2e319816c258c6928b90a34
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, including one that redirects to a link farm on disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious external sites, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=year+8+comprehension+test+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/52832467845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.palmettoexpresslanes.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gamajeralevimizoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscartridge.com/pic/94253606007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/zepabexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/burokininineloja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcf0a1d97765f37591f069e960cb36a4/ruzak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dogwoodagility.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97396329124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koutingchina.com/upload/files/74614540196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surestegc.org/documentos/file/47117715347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuhlshop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22447326084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/dunizixepav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolinterier.sk/upload/files/86921363485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroi-sistema.ru/img/30038271949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nocleginaplus.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/76407552472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81444606888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2tnaohjaebfk2avk27mgig69df/23598749264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelikonline.ru/content/Files/jolekavip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/8321787177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogable.de/userfiles/file/56891252674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockefellersgold.hu/editor_up/73390944320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rongoldmanlaw.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwelugujilowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/61790886584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winpoasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21722976031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhartiyambeohari.in/userfiles/file/gerebagerirefegav.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_off0000ebf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF1 16900 bytes
SHA-256: 214bbb11aa3f2cf32be4ffc0265a7ca56310617ab75ec67de8da343a146f15c2
font_01_sfnt_off000117e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117E6 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 78de383139b54decc1ee4415e77b9a672ddd67a82fd2660bf3fb5407086f777b
font_02_sfnt_off0001316d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1316D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1