Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dbe797691662d69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 17:10:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 88399c2597c6f841a79b7f15405fad61 SHA-1: 467fe312a74d66cc3e3c69f702b24bb9dbfe395b SHA-256: 2dbe797691662d6973b0e342c8113c804c185b0a014890bd18d5b4ff2d43d3bd
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for redirecting the user to one of the external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 http://zhihepvb.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109132122279284.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://strefaokazji.pl/uploaded/file/vuzelusarasavizagag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onelove.cz/file/10985218297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stomatoloska-ordinacija-rijeka.com/files/bumexafakamibex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oace6lle7688vpo2dls8k1cq8e/nifatugajubunarod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://culbertsonlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tibefolavimoweleludum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52515339570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents/files/92615627469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/76392708376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhrdbekasi.com/webroot/userfiles/files/61003042704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hermosabeachbungalows.com/userfiles/files/dofowoteritavamexobobipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/86001230893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/26304508976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-skawina.pl/app/webroot/media/files/55483874395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcockeysville.com/uploads/files/269789802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e4b4d562e2---79884765245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/vibope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/84475159941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93210848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonvvama.net/filespath/files/20210912154136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.artefuoricentro.it/js/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46221730770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otestmanager.org/club/data/userfiles/file/20210908081941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://timminsrenovations.ca/file/5Nk2NfIL4OCEodZG.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drjou-vc.com/upload/files/93761236769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/kesebizekujeralipegigug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.ee/media/contents/file/finiduzejuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=yts+lt+seriesPDF 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_off0000f0a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A1 9696 bytes
SHA-256: 7ab990e605da483f1358869376ce7e33747a1cb0a5fdaffe1bcff312476edf9a
font_01_sfnt_off000105db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105DB 17760 bytes
SHA-256: a2801ac0d8c8b795eb3ba805968ccd15b5511eaf536e98798eda7b83cb5a5bc8
font_02_sfnt_off000133db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1