Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd16817986fff46f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-09-11 03:06:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7fa98db5c29ae15e6fb7e07b291a6b89 SHA-1: cf2f87d9c632991baa82321880a36af5e6588efa SHA-256: cd16817986fff46fe4eb0c56c5332ec3f5ff4ac48e50182e83bf20ca11a8377c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a trojan. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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=windows+10+enterprise+update PDF link annotation
    • http://dominoliberec.eu/images/file/files/99504601367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodeslaboratori.eu/userfiles/files/64707310692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/77947393429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/xiloramuzowavinetow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promenade-perpignan.com/userfiles/file/nudovazikazufazoperuwava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0532.com/userfiles/file/20210901182435_drv4bz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucsangtrong.com/plus/files/83923056648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kottayammedicalcollege.org/CMS/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73046249777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lionsmarsala.it/userfiles/files/nateveva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/lobivumawedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpatswatertown.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajewenanidibarot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelifelesson.net/home/tappingchanges/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/derumodakopidabonudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirsanov-maslo.ru/uploads/mitorukiwibunitigewapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razzledazzleevents.in/userfiles/file/9885657230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behbehaniprojects.com/uploads/files/49864865486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dp-engineers.com/admin/userfiles/file/sagejefofafotokobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servicedental.it/userfiles/files/52245674819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fernandopelosini.it/userfiles/files/zozawojovixenozagidorepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urjabatteries.in/userfiles/file/xizixevovivekeloti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://global-brand.net/userfiles/files/68935068358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133cc9c23191---42792985007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/83442008448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yennenga.org/business_school/uploads/file/libixikewubilejewef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extintoresorigen.com/images/editor/bozakurefakafogexolasol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/xexivegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/5599474003.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_off00011149.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11149 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012960.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12960 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 61aa8514ad38deb771343e023b366596a39a0f3e8421921958b977bd76f3908a
font_02_sfnt_off0001421c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1421C 18156 bytes
SHA-256: f9506ce725b7db69162dd4aedd92bed1c083b9cbf08428973200d560ef35c287