Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 841d7925a11dda14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:30:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b8eaad2c59aefe6d12fcc4d6418ecf29 SHA-1: ad9632d7c69acdd9911fe91bbd312d188b552094 SHA-256: 841d7925a11dda14139172d29e68f66f8e8f4c4bf5ff56246f2b54ca3936fe58
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. Several heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection, confirm its malicious nature, specifically flagging it as phishing or a trojan. The presence of numerous external URLs, many hosted on potentially disposable domains, suggests a link farm or a distribution point for further malicious content, likely aimed at phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135d4f696a5c---binegojidiluvevukavuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://legyenegyjonapod.hu/userfiles/files/mozofanebigetexoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desco.scp.hr/files/rikewovom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhakhoanhantin.com/media/ftp/file/libata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613421cb1bea5---7805150157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portofmiamitunnel.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56708947879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madurastones.com/userfiles/file/29502139892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/86795942601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanhungcorp.com/images/uploads/files/kabusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pass38.com/images/contentimages/files/49494145291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--interpeas-r6a.es/upload/files/jupokipokewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexen.ca/userfiles/files/58704535815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erodiertechnik-wenzel.de/userfiles/file/46816648258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/gikeguvaloweguzeviwudos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/tosav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tjp2-hotlink-j3t.com/contents/files/ruvulurenole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabudiagnostic.com/userfiles/files/39198750944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dipulilusil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/xulizeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themadthinker.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/kudetas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanticabtl.com/cms_2018_quantica/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/95383426418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decisionstogo.com/fck_image/file/kopaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/30013261097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phunhai.net/upload/files/novepifexeguvigin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=v+full+movie+online+playPDF 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_off0000f028.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF028 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001083a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1083A 17948 bytes
SHA-256: 9cd6d05d599b8303e513c1d0da2ef26c9f2996feaa704854432a07d91fb100e5
font_02_sfnt_off00013665.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13665 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 071f915e6342601ff9c5b9f3c76ec384c021702549b2f65a3708cc0be324775a