Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d848a8a49c528d31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-14 02:22:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9249d60fb8183f0a12fd163d6883fc8d SHA-1: 08f5bedc684754cc5516c79dddc969f47ad87dd1 SHA-256: d848a8a49c528d3196e758086a5176a22bd1c72e1514a07e35ce6b4f0ac5a0e9
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript T1553.005 Security Software Installation

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious content. The presence of a 'Security software disable instruction' heuristic strongly suggests the document's intent is to prompt the user to lower their defenses. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the document's structure and numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious PDFs indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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 http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zumofagenetudifariwepap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cde2113807---jukuwudovijuxakadekitob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomientrung.vn/uploads/image/files/71685958040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/fajovabuniwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/vutinegakajubodubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2g6t922j60jkvao7arhlerksh4/9295433698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landroverbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/savavukenakelinukozujanub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamaxmotor.cz/data/dokumenty/75588488267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49351270301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbkhjc.com/uploads/202108/file/210831223026314680egv19n8nikis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ejmk.com/ej/upload/files/jipereditujadiwokona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-soar.com/userfiles/file/53035043551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promtour-rural.ro/userfiles/file/nodoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-life.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72937352801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivier-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49097232142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18899139071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stl-log.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/23282226251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ratchadatitan.com/UserFiles/File/77985540953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walterchiropracticclinic.com/home/walter/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/menojivareladepobavokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasadtemizlik.com/upload/file/21485672922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinslock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/64911057678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artattack-concerts.de/files/file/tigomiretevekuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elvirajogsi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43425654650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubak-ubezpieczenia.pl/userfiles/file/79419609841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/likukikagamima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifeteacher.tw/uploads/files/202109071318069973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=cricket+19+android+versionPDF 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_off0000cfdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFDB 18688 bytes
SHA-256: 976ba7814b755e6d0fe452dd61ac1f78679d19fbe29773592c77612213c20948
font_01_sfnt_off0001013d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1013D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11954 10724 bytes
SHA-256: cdee9ec4b40f04b106eecb61bdd2ec414afc8d8b62cc1ae65198169c8a616b07