Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b335938bee89c98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-10-11 20:10:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 5c05f8e13e2879616c07493d4d1c2213 SHA-1: cb25bce988c4288e47a498aef09070d6a071ade0 SHA-256: 4b335938bee89c98c55798eee5a132016aded2886ff3bd7f8e08eefa4589f0b6
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. The presence of numerous external URLs, many hosted on potentially disposable domains, suggests a link farm or distribution network. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm the malicious nature, indicating the sample is likely designed to exploit vulnerabilities or deliver further malicious content, possibly through a phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40ec3af2ceec450e3109192db01a4abf/fufularuko.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://safetyhanoi.com/userfiles/file/xibenolal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/xobebam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/gojuwuxunifudakonafuzuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yibetter.com/data/files/7985486257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saleskerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18166384508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/sitelurakumusox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejiya.com/userfiles/file/sotivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.park-seversk.ru/other/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76982080108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dd4296210e---rasuxifuxevapawufisoler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arnoldbolingbroke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/korawanobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miaousland.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vaxitud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainwater.cc/images/uploads/files/29761281663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebaldebaran.eu/userfiles/files/3417567142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieye.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/65277395609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsforwarriors.org/userfiles/files/75378536512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uleshuzatshop.hu/files/file/javuriwasibepefot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piti.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/82305705205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selidbe-beograd.info/files/janinoxomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domosplast.hu/files/file/45949273088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahdrilling.com/userfiles/files/refobineme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkyoukais.com/Images/Media/files/pibezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discus-rus.ru/upl/file/17726303163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozt.zielonetarasy-cieplice.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/60330704875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/896FEnmJZlk/uplcv?utm_term=mild+tr+with+moderate+pahPDF 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_off0000b5db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDED 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 4b3cbea19b2f32b8d80912a4d6bcfb069136e36bd22c6bdc75fcadb7cee793b0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f969.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF969 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 2ceef477488894e64752b491ca79b67bdb2bf72f4c6145b6cd1b691953705ed8