Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38eef376678e77d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 02:46:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1db01157b75a72a94c4d7b07fe5b8ce6 SHA-1: 5630917c6afd252a8a5a7080845bbf27080446c2 SHA-256: 38eef376678e77d8cc180f6f48ef108b13e324e8e7c8ae3ce525e2c6b5a08a3c
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. The heuristic firings indicate the presence of external URIs and a link farm, suggesting the PDF's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://basse-normandie.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/betatufapero.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://auto-rad.pl/userfiles/file/delatupomewimedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovepetclinics.com/file_media/file_image/file/12853846131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/lumorago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maketmaster.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kujolulakekageterazap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/49473230918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalweek.eu/userfiles/files/21924068159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casalindasbakery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56709176178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honmamon-s.com/img_seminar/userfiles/file/98391045392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onsale.social-push.cc/data/fckeditor/files/27383178725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614010e9c3de2---99963450625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontis.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/batijadozijetaxemew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijestr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16662569545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://culfordequestriancentre.org/UserFiles/file/tevarexupepevaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://henseltech.cz/userfiles/file/fugunubudozar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/nosowivizotikovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fibertech1.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mimiraxerugamubidukaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtyxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210903012052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbuilder.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66959699381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vwtint.com/userData/board/file/vopepajar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futimisdev.com/userfiles/file/19347932688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taxivanclass.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/zeweta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/60781537252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadesign52.com/uploads/files/202109081434071083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newcityhk.com/userfiles/48888836527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=wifi+hack+with+pcPDF 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_off0000b482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB482 15248 bytes
SHA-256: 950aeaba70c83e1413e5eccd020bb3f5c4af1f6971e4796057bf4e737d92ff5c
font_01_sfnt_off0000db89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A0 10080 bytes
SHA-256: 6621c11d5d378e7d3d2176327c012ff279f62f61e3d8c571104dc44dc40a8c15