Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e90e9175c7330cb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-22 22:48:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1805bbcdc953319ae4943c85db817c48 SHA-1: 6ba9253a4b5a50055c06723b43856c76c2b7d1d8 SHA-256: e90e9175c7330cb094e6f5e780fd8695002ac9450b2b6dc5924c1fcbf4cd7482
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs pointing to disposable hosting, indicative of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests a malicious intent to host numerous small, unrelated PDF files for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious links. ClamAV also detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+harvest+moon+android+free PDF link annotation
    • http://mascotdd.com/file_media/file_image/file/tiziluloluka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/tubemaremononinarebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161375bb6a7b82---88063943099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/84108908711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yaslibakicisi.net/userfiles/file/52702327022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29845947388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210916_144303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/12463116453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaccugiare24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/92962364993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/38439723073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caror.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81150567157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwangtosidae.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/26559941284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyandwowbook.com/upload/file/4014432685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyozenemeryville.com/uploads/files/45522477000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdmsig2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lobulipamefipip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posetili.ru/userfiles/file/6170094336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f3ff2640dd---roxamixet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-11/20210911030639225508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bumivirefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensormaticltd.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/godisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divetechmarine.com/contents/files/xozibakusepoturiwurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaparatt.com/images/File/89029254513.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_off0000cc56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC56 20180 bytes
SHA-256: c9d27d7db3ba410554147e7f6a6a4bdaab4c512ce0f92ab595ebf7841f89fb15
font_01_sfnt_off0001017c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1017C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011993.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11993 10772 bytes
SHA-256: b53981e0e5019379acd9cbf08be838ab4796931898632d5670c9bbffc2091e06