Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 871ab6924e7f6a3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 12:14:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1192813a68642a5b4b2d61a7fef0fa21 SHA-1: 54216ba596fc685ceb4a69d44e7a71d6a42fbadc SHA-256: 871ab6924e7f6a3acb4a7d53ce82e9491b94077670d2a23e1939b40b3c679560
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for delivering malicious content. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous links pointing to disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malware or phishing content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133714cd53cf---9418354130.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jd6618.com/jd6618/file/2021-9/file/LwpCms2021_09_06_08_00_31_7894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxesystem.site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87569962708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuli-china.ru/d/files/29787257755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiyuchangdi.com/upload_files/files/20210904_103633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/16220836629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeeing.com/userfiles/files/sibusex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcfkenzi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/geladiterixedelowor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.com/users/file/9268291543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibunajcc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4472795403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candleelectricals.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/70083692498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topflexsports.com/uploads/begiwawaxoxukovoxegodiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guptajimarriagebureau.com/userfiles/file/nokidigetanaviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panelshock.com/userfiles/file/17224882555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanraimundo.cl/dyn/uploads/file/40167071163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-styleauto.com/js/upload/files/75218223783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f170110211---lesemasiwusologadokiteka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flightshop.jp/images/blog/file/81482840283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xajipoxasukepulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preprodpcb.com/userfiles/files/1615772593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaperugia.fr/userfiles/file/38389780707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sec-ollivier-associes.fr/www/upload/file/39629324811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cserepakcio.hu/xdata/file/niwatelunipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=vectors+questions+and+answers+pdf+a+levelPDF link annotation
    • https://mediacentre.heathrow.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mirubozugobefixixi.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_off0000d98c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD98C 18588 bytes
SHA-256: 876e993b6463d3ce4eb17da5d56275cd6d69aa52612e73ef7912826a308a6661
font_01_sfnt_off00010a35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001224c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1224C 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 0da8252d5360ddd73d331ef2722a43014b3e9924f146c18be421509e3b118f5f