Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3818fbe155eaa306…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 17:23:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: aefb3fcbb5b7c23d107c6d4b3e19f864 SHA-1: 6f74d5a233877088be1a478a92988f394d0b3a53 SHA-256: 3818fbe155eaa30657b245374ee355c1418c6f6304048b31f753b5d385c1cc07
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to potentially malicious or phishing sites. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these external sites, which is a common tactic for distributing malware or conducting phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://matharu.ae/userfiles/file/64405868975.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://menifee.hanasushichoice.com/uploads/files/26345968768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.barefoothoa.com/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53195226560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khyljg.com/uploadfiles/files/xujizadubepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpidia2.com/contents/files/bunakasixopikulixenexip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/mopigefelox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/vironasotapovitoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xdata.pl/app/webroot/img/ckf/files/1868113665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival-bg.com/media/ckuploads/files/lelusigevoxekejonesumoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzpony.de/obrazki/file/14977538667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_36D392577DC12EA8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transturist.ba/ckeditor/ckfinder/files/files/71903550193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpkgoodframeupvc.com/userfiles/files/mowuzidokumoxekupadowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bee30a1198---laxigugimuxigumamasogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/donowopidozipenofibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bckbytow.naszbip.pl/img/upload/files/41143324937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c6cefe586a---12743707296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioschicchi.eu/userfiles/files/woxovopakotuzudarerola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjamsul-hidajat.id/ck_uploads/uploads/files/sadurinusukudunuletijaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stickers-moins-cher.com/userfiles/stickers-moins-cher.com/file/zuvotado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adec-interiors.net/Uploads/file/tewofavopunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabxlg.com/userfiles/file/fumovowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://illustrations.noche.fr/images/files/37517164525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+an+android+phone+or+tabletPDF 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_off0000ccd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCD3 17960 bytes
SHA-256: 515695e54a16300196f3f9bebe16886657b4e3b86e8d636757bcad3b77e4f4fb
font_01_sfnt_off0000faa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA0 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 3bc606d3887577e3e8004ceab63bfb9c3249cd22cdb6caa4cede44d019908925
font_02_sfnt_off0001129b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1129B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1