Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ba9e14248125e6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:15:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: f31ebf19685469a279840e6368df6fc1 SHA-1: 05e1c5a4848c3be757bc6b7d32d4c6a76da41e5f SHA-256: 5ba9e14248125e6ff973b2c21ff6cf26c4f9cf0027ce25abc942b01b5561a638
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 ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The sample also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external URLs pointing to PDF files, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23985854735.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://viquadro.com/userfiles/files/75738938166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sctiec.com/up_files/FCK/file/kilepepokaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettruss.com/upload/file/kafirajajivelorofuveti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autothudo.vn/upload/fck/file/zomemamogepujujeroja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arc-en-cielproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/safikelekulelejaruzuxene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clerus.hu/files/file/kozekosikajijadidizaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ropimuretidajosubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc0d7723b74a32ad6022be0c71226439/wegufizatonofuzaweva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbicwad4afgcgd5aph7d5e.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mewivip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsnmmaterials.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/21106432547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhquan-group.com/upload/ck/files/mezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meadescafe.com/userfiles/file/78672938600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.name/eros/userfiles/file/jivudolilasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.de/eros/userfiles/file/83066481357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/25288127137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.su/userfiles/files/milimuputizebabatuxidupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginecologmuresan.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21455799958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/95680943243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/27135508132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/midatukepututiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbicwad4afgcgd5aph7d5e.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/venegosumalotexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piannocreativo.com/js/new/fckeditor/userfiles/file/21380824583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cpnatacao.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/978096408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mystruggle.uk/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vimisokixomutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=nursing+foundation+book+by+potter+and+perry+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000e860.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE860 19344 bytes
SHA-256: a70e378c57ec1b141f978ca48389f93db4bb7d7c31379e833ce4928ae5c50af4
font_01_sfnt_off000119e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000131fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131FD 11180 bytes
SHA-256: bc9b70a86ad20882b59e88a2e99bc962fcc06cfa5ecab3bd6f02d8a90dca0d89