Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 120e96bae47ef63b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 22:49:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 50c851b6c53c485dccefd98bf79b42a8 SHA-1: 13c21599d3a1384a24d51452730f0f3f6135d971 SHA-256: 120e96bae47ef63b4e6da2974477d0cd3d216fc4e6a9d26beab8d4bda62d858c
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 link farm of disposable URLs. The PDF's structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious or phishing websites, as evidenced by the URLs found. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates this redirection or exploits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+biostatistics+8th+edition+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • http://geriatriccarenewjersey.com/userfiles/files/91623564489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6da3vn6pnn6lje3t7ivk90v76/relufapexubiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsaltsj.com/uploads/files/59336405533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmke.cz/pictures/files/nokedosajojurixopile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/75864364728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongphuchuytai.com/upload/files/webobikopofaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oris-am.com/editor_up/raforuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepsima.biz/files/file/15982231849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rasathantrananotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magiccat.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50869342846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dubilex.com/userfiles/files/83016752787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/51300253016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/xuvasoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-massimo.com/js/upload/files/27139457031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jecoexports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/junudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-dr.com/uploads/files/202109141032544676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razredna-nastava.net/files/32978690764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/meburo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur4.com/contents/files/jasenibefazudorup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armiikrajowej36.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36178021950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviatroglo.fr/IMG/file/3139382885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/leliwonuxatuzaveza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14985931851.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_off00010f1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F1B 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 32ee80309fa3f3b0f8e787d0cd4318cb4f1ae313b8cf599b0f09e56bd7808d71
font_01_sfnt_off0001293d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1293D 18748 bytes
SHA-256: 7dccd01e56d69a8b2427fbbb0e26976c130464202d7f2468486f255b8ef6cd96
font_02_sfnt_off00015a49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A49 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1