Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccc7aa50d8bf65fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 00:29:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b545c793725b7d726d407be4ff361635 SHA-1: a6b4ba135472febee6faf285d288083a9041a9dd SHA-256: ccc7aa50d8bf65fe8c66f641c8174128ab70f641a137c53b93e1125cea59bc84
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, with high-confidence heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and external URIs. The PDF structure suggests it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious PDF files hosted on various domains. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161430be72880b---lozakepabow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chineseclothingonline.com/File/36080890675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramen.com/uploads/files/bobugeruvudulovasadonen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archissimo.eu/userfiles/files/memetowerudulanaviruta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tythb.cn/uploadfile/files/49904786122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keiba-like.biz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13472917169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/zidapanorir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuzoku-kyujin.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33528353388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgemfoco.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67939737431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csaladiegyteruautok.hu/userfiles/files/4592177831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://due.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wemevikinisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agenziaimmobiliarecannavo.eu/userfiles/files/vudawuvepazenawura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnwt.mgo.cool/upfile/files/2021/09/07/vomewububagesazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colafranceschi.it/userfiles/files/nerawof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jensbrode.de/files/file/46031183285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnhhgj.com/upfiles/userfiles/file/konivat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbamedica.org/userfiles/files/nopigirepafatuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/82257876042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strap.sk/uploads/files/zapotajojadivif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanhebiotech.com/upload/files/ribidoxufinujoxupopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofelician.com/userfiles/files/jukufaxikaripalovewikajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f3eed73e10e45d875850d0850fe4bb6/nalewuxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapakunited.com/contents/files/dixuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psg66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nemarekivosojevigasej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hdurmuslar.com/images_upload/files/kumaputu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+deleted+contacts+on+your+phonePDF 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_off0000b7e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7E3 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 2578d2f728f95b0813cafeb1ae58b7dfc806ce769c407f3014efa5295f759e93
font_01_sfnt_off0000d16d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD16D 15848 bytes
SHA-256: 5d2a24fb5f0d98eaea054a6ebd5f97c3aa26dad6a5c97970bce8ca3f3612b107
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1