Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb8875d0e20acba6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 13:02:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f6993ee8c458a4da45326279d00b0010 SHA-1: 303eb2d073d08a12fd0b4abd65d6b586f94bc1f8 SHA-256: cb8875d0e20acba6e3ffeb398cfbc904f1c37549b34b82df723b83fa5163b770
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, many of which point to disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected file, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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 http://sieuthicayxanh.vn/webroot/img/files/49496326893.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lesartsdansmonjardin.com/userfiles/file/20210907102727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44719948885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctmcooper.com/userfiles/files/37159624990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/simipexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valgott.com/images/userfiles/file/vezegevomak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vers-ma.de/userfiles/file/winami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcpingie.be/public/files/99037462253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ce4e54e72---juvasolutofovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/jezevusaxarekigerinulam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlinendttraining.net/files/37093186010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pastravariaizvoarelebratiei.ro/images/file/tixejokizugatebivufimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aokunoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58217681230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1853fb3935f673381e7b96625a40b445/93556540653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namhunglogistic.vn/site/files/40927947559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikuseikyokai.jp/ckmedia/files/54539046111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///pubanamibononiwamedewade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rwd.webseo.tw/upload/files/bemimamozawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorus.rs/files/sapegodamixufowaxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laarakkers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7648726824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kumewawufemanolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.com/userfiles/files/83657885839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/mewinafinewositir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartdeal.pl/files/upload/files/zakuvisetaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cps-mbstu.edu.bd/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waveremuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+omega+ruby+gba+file+downloadPDF 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_off0000e90f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE90F 10964 bytes
SHA-256: cb1a1bb3864985806052879015b049d1b96f17887b3dc6aad441f91da1d0539a
font_01_sfnt_off0001024d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1024D 18504 bytes
SHA-256: 4b799fe2d8fd55b26a25d5b1542f2a7a645cb68cf8f0fd4633519740f18a553d
font_02_sfnt_off000132f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1