Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13aee7e5cbd57507…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-10-03 06:31:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: a55b348e20c2de7770f1083b76857e2b SHA-1: dbafbd407d79a69d324c7534755b96103b81224a SHA-256: 13aee7e5cbd575070059d6f43d8fdb74bea3bec24776cd0f4c2afeb116e086d2
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, suggesting it is used to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports that the document is part of a link farm designed for malicious purposes.

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+insert+pic+into+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://metall-press.ru/files/6754045951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euskararenginkana.eus/files/galeria/files/73540782325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelgiottotorino.com/userfiles/files/98246687399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsutae-f.com/js/upload/files/97214654201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa6f095ee4649561ab0357cd4de1294d/80394858406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-apartments.pl/data/pages/79519124567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbibepnhahang.net/media/files/27214513849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gym-rectif.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49340393928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oilbasaro.com/web/images/ckfinder/files/20210906040018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/9822613476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-universe.com/image/files/20210926_093439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021100309261873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramor.bg/userfiles/file/13218673835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog/file/54302985295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equipelec.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60374099553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jin-hung.com/userfiles/file/18438687988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrhh.fronteraliving.com/imagenes/contenidos/files/pifitamumifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eska-lift.ru/userfiles/file/putugojerolavaxunulena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalbafitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/5475031178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210912021355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/papenopozasasasatuganajof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312e77c8472---sumupefewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newline-eg.com/userfiles/file/44020189100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.astmalek.cz/obrazky/file/21048846055.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_off0000b2ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2EA 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 431c5ba2d56bcd80e5cf937a10c9cc433209ec724ac247a0655959d347089ab7
font_01_sfnt_off0000cadc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCADC 15464 bytes
SHA-256: b6487e4c27c0f78c5481cc8a8233fba89d969afb29bb81157cf250af41179242
font_02_sfnt_off0000f252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF252 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1