Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44ef482ac45848d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 23:18:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cc6c7041be9ed7e036bafee0d45d931b SHA-1: c9af63dce76e8197ee777590b647c99b0711f59b SHA-256: 44ef482ac45848d404c09233ffbb8fea574024b0ed6223fb532f7306201457e3
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. This script likely redirects the user to a link farm, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic and the numerous unknown URLs. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm its malicious nature, suggesting it's a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://ngusacdon.com/upload/files/mozibopimoludireve.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://architetturaurbanistica.it/userfiles/files/dozeroxujoped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/4335180018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/65276635723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144d65835b9b---fedagatuvafifoleva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/kibegixuvonifaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ablerexthailand.com/userfiles/files/20491498882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/47040020173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamboomfi.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/napawozinulez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyrun-arser.com/js/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php/upfiles/file/210907041105165071ccccnv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.pl/userfiles/file/vafelebusagojesoxawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giovanninociti.com/userfiles/files/70779210070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c868627f7ce2c1057e01136f347302f/51838639412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sherpachristain.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shbaicun.com/userfiles/file/2021090120583373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bientannamhuy.com/wp-content/uploads/files/kevemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinyudachem.com/upload/files/8253156251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flex-link.cn/uploadfiles/files/92069287129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwangallant.com/uploads/files/202109171024505646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://znalac.com/userfiles/file/53424324577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweepinstyle.com/userfiles/file/61664780254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.borzabadi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tapitukomofutaxagab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polins.org/public/userfiles/file/68994214613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/42314325073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walterchiropracticclinic.com/home/walter/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lofawupadikunasezoxope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falegnameriacastiglione.it/userfiles/files/xetomawibuvejinid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ukulele+chords+pdfPDF 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_off0000bee9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEE9 17084 bytes
SHA-256: a81f00b8d007ace160f855f6c73284802f31a0bb382d8dd30d04f9c72341f180
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000102b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B1 10460 bytes
SHA-256: b1c9b9d73f7f14875252b57a2bfa3aaac3cbdef5bc8168ca2515e285bd32f0fd