Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48bc64be64fbcf2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 03:03:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 79a86912485d6e7e0e96f71dad8ae0ed SHA-1: 65d33503cae26ee488b75164e169b40994139fcb SHA-256: 48bc64be64fbcf2b4a062cdfd15dce7caa1060dc09592543d744bc3e23c7c3d9
74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics as malicious. It also includes numerous external URIs, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to the link farm, which in turn hosts more PDF files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 5

  • 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://kcpsystem.com/userData/board/file/dizafufarugomibeximawix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sjmhospital.org/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68634861854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/podudaxetabirob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/34244624891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplorium.su/userfiles/file/zizidugelekuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarmehedinti.ro/userfiles/file/furataxukufolosisepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/tupubesaxukolukoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rinducm1.com/contents/files/famugokivediluwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/nozezovejiriwedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.as/userfiles/file/40655566950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcsiprojectracker.com/userfiles/files/80568671604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tramtronbetong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/90265612417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd1ddbbc34---3422611652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaccugiare24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/11493495509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///2791050663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b1c67959c6---vabojubuwiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/4144274399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/74867744510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/vudaxakokaxadifidolejit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edgecs.com/documents/rejowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e68momo.com/shopadmin/upload/files/tilunoxagedibide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robbes.nl/media/files/9052190028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioschicchi.eu/userfiles/files/43496297551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverkarenisandby.se/UserFiles/files/45637240276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=increase+likes+and+followers+on+instagram+appPDF 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_off0000c588.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC588 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD9F 11092 bytes
SHA-256: f5c694b707a7a42ce93950b90716733486e9bcbe91b9f1fe2186e906a9baad9e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f74d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF74D 16908 bytes
SHA-256: 79292b2df1b5735f9bb976a5431a29c3764a6a3649385a704b934b2b31ca0e8e