Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1536fffc6922d6f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 14:35:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: dd9953f93ac7d95318a2e1a77b131c00 SHA-1: ea79b64e2356b3959f28a5499912428a2a545ab4 SHA-256: 1536fffc6922d6f050ca51bfeca1b4c747db60eaea14e6fefa58a35d53fc2321
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. The PDF also contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to potentially malicious or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 http://studiospazioambiente.it/userfiles/files/11231793967.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kewofulagowomelemum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalcoopadvisors.com/userfiles/files/70815487838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614163daaf5f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/27224006236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0351.com/userfiles/file/20210907235738_gy6g1e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210915202213_is810p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.koeru.eu/failid/file/28300384706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anaksemut.com/contents/files/66519886887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147487199ab4---68243141434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/woraragekowotiwurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://searchkar.com/ci/userfiles/files/60445459215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machinex-machines.com/UserFiles/File/23217141369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.institutvzdelavani.cz/files/20619179090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecosdaliberdade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29363887243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/79361271469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsf-vastroad.com/userfiles/file/86506111254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/83986301137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electric-kernbichler.at/koloforarof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/nixefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaprius-custom.com/js/upload/files/21090176161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.com/contents/files/lupajijuzawokuzakibinowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokosohk.com/files/fckfiles/file/xuxogizuparekasazuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/mililesobeputavuwavez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-caster.com/userfiles/file/83985473027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=download+naruto+senki+release+worldPDF 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_off0000fb50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB50 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011362.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11362 18684 bytes
SHA-256: 43d58ccc6e2df0ce1056e391af18d1722519169556a2e1d797e52fa7316239da
font_02_sfnt_off000142f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142F4 10520 bytes
SHA-256: d5e5312804e0ff967d0897536c81ab7f69087cffa71c710b940e37127130360b