Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e99cc9506a47397…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-14 14:11:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3386f912ce06cf1511cb78a146f7fe7a SHA-1: 61defe25284d329e94b88869e7a700579b726bf1 SHA-256: 2e99cc9506a473975acf627ee1e2ae1bf9a0b3e6517d11c1dcb65b133e0a4605
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities or redirecting users. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the document is part of a link farm designed to host numerous PDFs on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites via the numerous external URIs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=widget+smith+app+android+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a9e873d19d---3597227185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didopack.com/files/29670417393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recrut.com/files/files/bodolurinoniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/40728277742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67820225752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cauthinh.com/luutru/files/purefopozifelir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ishvani.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66222451880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lbk-ingatlan.hu/uploads/file/dodopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adverto.ee/userfiles/file/fedikujuwize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mustwalge.ee/data/content/files/3310059734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nurugelexport.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21685590341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7ogrivbvd9sjt438ri1f15pqv/7221906567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5slk8hdluhpu03re1novihff8b/5300741149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cottoneauto.it/userfiles/files/ranojakasiravilixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/wewabida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okinawa4d.com/contents/files/fosesatogoroxufinosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://druckmaschinenservice.com/uploads/fce/files/54213423971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesciencenetwork.org/uploads/files/tesakujinuvukuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://only-svet.ru/upload/files/xifad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omprintandpack.com/userfiles/file/koselimowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-champagne.com/blog_images/blog_/file/91819299138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/vabomazib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatyzvule.cz/uploads/jatunel.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_off0000b910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB910 18580 bytes
SHA-256: d8567dc12260843941d3d1f6e485b082aa65914005a3bc3085251d405050ed20
font_01_sfnt_off0000e797.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE797 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 4ed9879077dc7a508ecb420a65b48db9a8b04dc0f64c8de1e31c42984dc444f1
font_02_sfnt_off0001007b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1