Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8773323d34254afe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 22:01:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 8b24215b88f9df8cb12deb0ec390c45b SHA-1: 334dc1faf0d45b4737f33818e1da52421215f2ef SHA-256: 8773323d34254afe07b163dd880b799e7f30d907f04a3f34473df145cfba2be3
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to potentially malicious content, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://le-bouquet.be/userfiles/files/63268085920.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://masukpt1.com/contents/files/nokajifasewidepodetapin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argekaucuk.com/nbg/upload/files/76705811990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enilubricant.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/81398650971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilit.ir/basefile/digilitir/files/20389166739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16137ad01d9799---72445622225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iowatriallawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/soterimizezamanekunifuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitroc.com/userfiles/file/kirogozelosupikubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sampoernastrategic.com/uploads/image/files/wanopixatete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huzatfokozo.hu/editor_up/ditatilokaret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/5307651518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/43959857212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsitecomvn.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/78394185456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneiro-sa.pnh.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24380784044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diennuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/fosobemoradorux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.iwan.co/userfiles/files/naxosovivedirubezozexal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://only-svet.ru/upload/files/16881901618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safetypadlocks.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/kevesakevekajenesalar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gutachterbewertung.de/userfiles/file/fudeledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikhospital.com/ck_uploads/uploads/files/4135090708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneiro-sa.pnh.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17278635432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unternehmensberatung-hegenbarth.de/userfiles/file/lawukumifexawedizivefoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/xevutujexatoluguda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agri-mal.pl/userfiles/file/30728114630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardeche.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woberumori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=thunder+vpn+apk+iosPDF 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_off0000afce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFCE 10568 bytes
SHA-256: c28dafc63b1f5fd265df1cb46c42303954534c750571a3ef9db0de2e769c3b2b
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000dfe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE5 14628 bytes
SHA-256: 0c0c9ceb0f29214c75b777843543325bdfbe8b37a07d4ef3d527bb25ae03213d