Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccd48cffb3082c8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 03:49:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9c3da935218d912e93151a29cc74e4d7 SHA-1: b45bfc3cca133e32a9e28b8770bd5b2eac30a919 SHA-256: ccd48cffb3082c8a03cd50360f454b10bc12e5b3632bdc49a29f76ea6aa66180
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. The presence of numerous external URLs, many pointing to disposable domains and employing UTM parameters, strongly suggests a phishing or link-farming operation. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=staffing+meaning+in+management PDF link annotation
    • https://yuktogel.com/contents/files/todusukukugozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/fesuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snieznik.pl/userfiles/file/17440243680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353ab65842e---ladomusewifudutomowub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/doxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsmontaggi.it/userfiles/files/10018643584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagakuratrading.com/js/upload/files/7796336814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brihat-group.com/assets/userfiles/files/96363551146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48533335552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peter-scherer.de/userfiles/file/52738810100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finalstage.biz/js/upload/files/morikejiwivejelamuporup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/wumatogumulabojezubebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhbiotech.com/CKEdit/upload/files/70299922867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vikohasanfiber.com/upload/files/gapopaxegemugexijali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-9/file/76898278966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/27607195141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talcmanagement.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/moxajanafidonakozinamen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunesistudio.eu/userfiles/files/zuzapuzazamatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vocal.bpv.su/content/files/files/12504125312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161465a947afce---96208121058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neonatal-surgery.ru/userfiles/files/teradez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilprato.eu/userfiles/files/27100428758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabbeleecooking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/towajukipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/gumivomawotalefov.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_off000102e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E0 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 1c22f781dc53e95aa8d93b147e668ae2d08c16ff7f17c12e4b048215e4d568db
font_01_sfnt_off000119b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000131ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131CA 17820 bytes
SHA-256: f3c92317ac5bf8b20a53fe826fc1851bbbb94a7d72a1325f31e5b3d27fa3203e