Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ef49a1eaa585144…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-12 05:49:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 074cd7b664d7ee9888746b4a33f79527 SHA-1: a0791a4dd2a6cc5a1be9f6803d2869c53d18a84e SHA-256: 7ef49a1eaa58514407e6d19c3097650696bee45a905be5f20507d305e67d1f64
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many of which point to potentially malicious domains. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the execution of malicious code or the redirection to further malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://usa-ex.com/images/blog/file/13094245054.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/bedufim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurerom.com/userfiles/file/64584045592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----1-6cdapb2bdyqawnpcindqfc.xn--p1ai/media/file/97104466923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/fopizivomurofukalesev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verimevzabavu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gijexuginawasanovopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floresdeserrezuela.com/aym_image/files/gutorojixudub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condicionamentofisico.com/arquivos/file/22049138679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ximangsongthao.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/nuxejok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectagsafety.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85154696322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamalight.net/business_school/uploads/file/59073123513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irvine.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/47925676295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijp2.com/contents/files/47163761539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138b6e0f10ef---62480751154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viacaosaopedro.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51115169218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istihdamhaberleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wurenopil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leciv.fr/uploads/FCK_files/file/topujapojevax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nensi.si/upload/file/numibezeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/2766754564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakersfield.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/70755566710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/karukudani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spartapr.com/images/upload/file/julododamegefijis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lednotice.com/userData/board/file/vazotijibulenalokiwizuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tries.cz/media/images/upload/file/8370577985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/sojezozuzugabodilexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=macos+android+emulatorPDF 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_off0000dce4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE4 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 66cf587bd9850faeccd43ac472e881ecfd93e6ef6c874e3786ca515a1a936512
font_01_sfnt_off0000f52f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF52F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D41 19300 bytes
SHA-256: 79a55fe16f70919b516d4379a430fc4fa51d48bcaf9309ba3f12afb11fe28922