Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02969b79a95c22ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 00:07:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4d96656c509fa970aea2b1300b3879f1 SHA-1: 545fa8102e3e6183f079301f7d475f457eff89d1 SHA-256: 02969b79a95c22ed4598460fb6a31a98e9e7f24f18e67ba44671f60e7dbb9d24
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs. The PDF document's structure suggests it functions as a link farm, directing users to various potentially malicious websites for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=deploying+app+to+play+store PDF link annotation
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/98806097466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210902061319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newchat.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tasigijixon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hockjoohin.com/admin/uploads/file/51836722969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkkarsin.pl/img/upload/files/dufumepakuputekazige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointwebhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/silidizupikawuzosutij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prabashproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94352558710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eabb45aa4b---25643170864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63702747127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducnhua.com/upload/files/10764143886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoskola-scp.com/files/xumigujem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastholten.nl/userfiles/file/pilegejafego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shindah.com/images/ckeditor_img/files/89785269254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuonlan.vn/data/upload/files/fiborogesozubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e802e08eb---58722614393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khodahoanglang.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/63392256827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-pvc.com/upload/files/pukovegufakaxajekuvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamanhinhlcd.net/userfiles/file/xopevuxovusobaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rujiahk.com/uploadfiles/file/mutasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51676469531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/90306487162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/46548232513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/64803123134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theloanwala.com/userfiles/file/76551695525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuraniterbiye.com/resimler/files/dumikakur.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_off0000db34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f34b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF34B 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 5fd5c2442c9beee76320d6042aaa53c2a84b4bbb9b407a5331b370bfee6df205
font_02_sfnt_off00010b78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B78 18180 bytes
SHA-256: 82c7fc25c41b94eb66dda1ddf9f0ec93e1fa06ee5235d966c0e94ed22537d514