Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09b6d055dce63b24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-30 17:51:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 6c09d07186903dfdc9a9e9978be8b83b SHA-1: 71110b45411f276a77bbccb25bdfcf1af456d6e3 SHA-256: 09b6d055dce63b24918cbdd11a2e7b7bda58066ee0e80d7a2bf38868b18ff4d1
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. This script likely redirects the user to external URLs, as indicated by the PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics. The presence of numerous links to potentially disposable domains suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, which is likely malicious. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://everbeenmagnet.com/js/upfiles/files/95306660268.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152b66ff0335---nepiwarumawijijovelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kssi.ir/public/userfiles/file/4117259177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forestheightsgarden.com/ckupload/files/43543836249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leciv.fr/uploads/FCK_files/file/99493120008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-sign.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55213225333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143b1e9ea6bf---dutejazege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domki-kopalino.pl/pliki/9546687904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holdemigny.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89730569164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mskgroup-spb.ru/upload/file/zikopejiberuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/putifudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preciz.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/likejoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jolanyee.com/upload/files/202109102229043919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-manzokudou.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/valukajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlumacz-lipno.pl/pdrzewiecki/files/wozatusubifumuwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/gulujetozoworaxuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://docando.es/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pubusubesunilatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamayeshniroo.com/shop/file/69764667962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s13cf5ef.alojamientovirtual.com/ropalaboralbarata.com/userfiles/file/30958787118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varadimasszazs.hu/uploads/files/3362089521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/juvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66432824382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kantipursecurity.com/userfiles/file/93693760638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenkochaya.com/user_data/ckfinder/files/64922753790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piazzademarini3ge.com/userfiles/files/41055281243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=best+android+launcher+2019PDF 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_off0000b337.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB337 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 919b386b97f083e8b489d7bafefd7af871600c8a1fd989e4567f75f47cc60d3f
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE529 14832 bytes
SHA-256: bf956215d7cda9c09e04f49a42870a4708981246e956ef1aed7a792107d03cd4