Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc3bccc33a95a696…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-09-30 23:14:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 312678a4b1810c2e914c0c87a58c886f SHA-1: 4b6cd492aa33960d92b5e1f4a50b3cfb73f434c5 SHA-256: cc3bccc33a95a6968f10d5e4571827000280dedcaef0702c9547a2973da5aa1a
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and is identified as a phishing lure, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded JS and external URIs points to an attack pattern involving user interaction to trigger a malicious redirect.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+facetime+non+iphone+users PDF link annotation
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/63388191297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27990707002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/54538049117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soles2walk.com/data/file/55350383671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.com/file/84209176064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silatur.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bunorezak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karelo.com/uploads/File/58877012078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bordahusfeldolgozo.hu/editor_up/69953222686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161504f03d4d3f---86338481832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cachnhietwin.com/luutru/files/lusopawosavope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-uchebnici.com/img/file/75069090298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hon-ro.hu/userfiles/files/suripetufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svenjakretschmer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54261281893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaas.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/74449048338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41220342007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.info/file/74324148331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsasecretariat.fr/userfiles/file/13767506090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleinwestor.pl/userfiles/file/tuforox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vikohasanfiber.com/upload/files/zajusevowen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kokibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k2plusinterior.com/userfiles/gudovulamagefexoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142341de1ee4---mijejem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhbiotech.com/CKEdit/upload/files/webumuragizozena.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_off0000afc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFC0 14016 bytes
SHA-256: 5c27fd1dead18c6bae1b4aa748098844808fb117134be43faf5af5212adc1e59
font_01_sfnt_off0000d282.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD282 10876 bytes
SHA-256: ea82bd2e73368113be35f41b9da71d01e80b27fd38587d1d858eae8301617ad8
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1