Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22a1d3637fb00c59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 15:18:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 963a57c66e67aac965af19db2de39e91 SHA-1: 2ea2b3acf03fc2d37fde8e65aad86de06424866e SHA-256: 22a1d3637fb00c590b1dc32520233fddc7b8868070d935cb2ecd8bb59fb205ef
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, including one specifically designed as a 'link farm' on disposable hosting. The presence of a visual download button and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading a secondary payload or visiting a phishing site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=messenger+lit+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://bongoes62.dk/userfiles/file/gojifofuxutowex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/96956497151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/81574616662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/92420657301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobitransjogja.com/files/namofoturafokariboxidoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/nagumoxakexevusidol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/65479019225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhrc.in/userfiles/file/12764399588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkqzl.com/uploadfile/file///2021090819431369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemaeldeundobjekte.de/uploads/files/netusasiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchisefarm.franchiseharbor.com/files/files/gofadememalapedafobiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pawikoramigosisuvelowero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2pijh7u1ib3su2kob8mkjn0r07/28317498898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613036ffa4a7d---risunezabuduwenos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/24136860165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://we2meeting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/63099240158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/54411759441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alubiasdetolosa.com/files/galeria/files/wodisifakesosaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cps-mbstu.edu.bd/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zinerofuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-wesam.com/userfiles/files/dokanufitofegojipela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/38430390989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/67230088636.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_off0000cc21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e433.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE433 23180 bytes
SHA-256: 1f044dcd0c853a4cdbd5d1bc0c615eef527ecb2d0f27138f6840aedc7f81164e
font_02_sfnt_off00012044.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12044 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 4ecf5be98e9f0bfaee5f1d04728a9c82166b0b0d2ae5ad4d6fa65da4791a1c8b