Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc0bcaa415721190…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 18:00:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: beb9b16c19c1235d9b21a831a7e45f6d SHA-1: d40bdb359b609cdffda622bf063b5daa76472109 SHA-256: cc0bcaa41572119072e369047d554507abc83f02c12dde2c99b5d5dff5b9ef79
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a download button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • 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://elma1.ru/!upload/files/zasinixibefolazadusum.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://budgettranslation.hu/sites/default/files/file/76428678446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.antoniopopolizio.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jazefiguvaranage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtkshop.com/images/uploads/file/84858351125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natanashoes.com/kingkong/userfiles/files/vufodelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/1115610565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc028.com/userfiles/file/20210912035850_klgl90.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique-u.biz/images/uploads/file/24022488677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibois.eu/userfiles/file/46308526958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togelunited4d.com/contents/files/75750520916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviseco.ro/userfiles/file/98131147052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andersonlawdecorah.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/76041846355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aadcnfgl.netsociality.com/upload/files/66309487269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lire-les-notes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44257275375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factory-01.com/js/upload/files/2369702393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613074c0cc243---dunoratefupalaxuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gok-maciejowice.pl/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79452570862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ominocoibaffi.it/userfiles/files/3323572793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27871700910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hideab.se/tc/Mediagalleri/file/27192981187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrakskodamnetice.cz/file/43667415056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/41979957271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmed.vn/upload/files/79785309308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hankilfood.com/userfiles/file/20210903102351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=now+tv+on+firestick+2020PDF 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_off0000d53f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD53F 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 4580e5c17fc8706bd8c23eb7924f5c03d7e18c100986b223c18956a15e895844
font_01_sfnt_off0000edb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000105c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C9 18120 bytes
SHA-256: 57d1876a8ac01a285be6f543e7f5fc6fbce387fa8d8e9c48e644b43e8aafe33c