Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39368ca3d63e227d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:05:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 32db0add569ab6a92b4ebafc4cdeb43c SHA-1: a7b59300f210f453c151047c15e4973893c2cc7b SHA-256: 39368ca3d63e227d8b951484fb988fc41e4dbf007dd59bf488e62eae402cc013
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, including one identified as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to the link farm, which hosts numerous other PDF files, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 https://thefertilizergranulator.com/d/files/58987445607.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--oy2b19v1mb1yi.com/userfiles/file/17892414537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b9cab4845---20884149027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/58167343455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tangneylaw.com/admin/images/file/23929427341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purefeeling8.com/data/file/rurezoserojawifadidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemochem.cn/upload/files/rivitaxewajibokumenokojas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesushiscv.com/uploads/files/15507446809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capthepcongtrinh.com/uploads/news/files/funojarar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/4890484747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stop-remont.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14763499283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfinshaat.az/userfiles/file/33572267180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protetyka-lublin.com/images/wyswig_images/file/7407792538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/desevimofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sistemkabin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43304858627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bbmnetlicitacoes.com.br/cms/ckfinder/upload/files/fitilakiletujijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/denenalijutab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themadthinker.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/kudetas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohntraumgmbh.at/gabutanalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rqconsultores.com/userfiles/file/90118844982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/tewenirodozupadifagigol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europawindow.com/app/webroot/img/main_content/files/84394867168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruta.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80650919131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/dukud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musclecar-taps.com/js/upload/files/78296884665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseconcert.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2987476792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+delete+old+sms+androidPDF 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_off0000d93c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD93C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f153.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF153 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 422adb0629b7aca5845183ee41133a416ce7a3666b2e0527fd3e1436b5b4f0ad
font_02_sfnt_off0001091d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1091D 17684 bytes
SHA-256: 879d3e13df4b1da1bd55fede326ea66e23afef8e61f1bff7b9862300b46f3077