Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 228366890259d17c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-09-10 05:45:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e83d6a7a470c86ab0e35bed7acbc3ff5 SHA-1: 2479ca18a20f959b9ba4ebe334056c9211f76a6e SHA-256: 228366890259d17c0eb6ab19fd019a1d8dec8e28efa2e9674780532a0f671872
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a payment redirection lure, aiming to trick users into updating financial details. The presence of embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to potentially disposable domains, suggests an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, and the heuristic for password-protected archive lures further supports a multi-stage attack where this PDF serves as a delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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://akanaymatbaa.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pobetirejipixomut.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://avtrak.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/janumikama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocaminiti.it/userfiles/files/27291915730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ea0e2ad71bb5009e47f109df1ceccd5/28778647639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137776d33a99---3507080089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/vakukosemituworutesujezom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drentmedischadvies.nl/uploads/files/kenen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaldiskibus.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_E6F62BFC6554EA70.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geluidsadviesnederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rupexogigegurafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vili-al.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/598262501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akiisushi.com/uploads/files/rotolonanozibujumik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--knstlerische-biografie-arbeit-lbd.ch/userfiles/files/nikogaromuxaroporafur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/99399200199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honmamon-s.com/img_seminar/userfiles/file/47315945534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7profi.net/userfiles/file/jolibodesulejojisosufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/gukagapobetizuxonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/50330751507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotosvatba.net/userfiles/file/sewonujikusijenawikuguwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektor-bezpeki.com/userfiles/files/96513182407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citescolairedeledit.com/include/file/93871142791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowagon.it/userfiles/files/30155778597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afslab.asia/upload/files/94021982446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bifopegexoxaporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spartaksedlec.cz/spartaksedlec/userfiles/file/16670129251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=fortnite+account+ps4+generatorPDF 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_off0000f543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF543 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D5A 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2e07e71567c241c409de8836911c1e4ad186c5cca80b2a5335f292bed2e38
font_02_sfnt_off000125ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125EC 19892 bytes
SHA-256: 3da1165c4cd5c6ae895e4c3aea7d82b726f20188aada11034ab81e7f84836b20