Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 756920d3d1b27360…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 13:50:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 489e221b53fa7d34618c1059d811bfc5 SHA-1: a7b6890f7d3a3d1a338465fffd615f574bc9af58 SHA-256: 756920d3d1b2736055a14269f10c94f35aad84331a3cbb35a27db04feacd5b64
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities or perform malicious actions within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=on+guard+pdf+william+lane+craig PDF link annotation
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/54821026300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekinyalitim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/zojudaxapuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.thamtuddt.com/uploads/image/files/50902167939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b30g3uq7pay7m.com/upload/fckeditor/file/punutunepesugonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/xufisosisibeluxuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenhungstone.com/uploads/image/files/10473958448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancars.eu/uploads/edytor/file/nujofalezexivubopoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giustizianuova.it/userfiles/file/bibenonepesire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorestagno.eu/userfiles/files/39587982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/userfiles/file/23215300855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emusicmarket.com/upfile/board/files/65136676798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/16396827296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fizjoactiv.eu/Upload/file/miroxemutejewajutib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhcoaching.com/userfiles/files/jafojutasakato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96552076105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/2083351729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/4670873040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garagehayashi.com/js/upload/files/52631566547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theofficefurniturestore.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74779855214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netwindowvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jolamijomekesebodolafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nada70.org/userfiles/file/wivanogevusoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ea1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA1A 17456 bytes
SHA-256: b2bb38b40ea94a951410e4081bda29e009abb24e4803d68b6f4f694a1fb2003d
font_01_sfnt_off00011782.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11782 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F99 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 31ef14934145794a2007f4ffca74977685b35da5f19572bf83267379cf65c7a8