Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8914d67c89dadb96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 10:59:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4ccea0d7b395a2b6c5b85d7d9477082a SHA-1: 68ca4f9a238e385b2c6d5071c4d4ccebc8c96804 SHA-256: 8914d67c89dadb9612ed9a0dff88c075336957940a22f6b687dbf382ef897630
74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. The heuristic 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' with a high model output strongly indicates malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggests a link farm or redirection mechanism designed to lead users to malicious content, likely phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 5

  • 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://projekt-lesen.de/userfiles/file/35173999129.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/videkesemamudonerazaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/80153788745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobath.com/app/webroot/img/files/97570659449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarklawtexas.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/81019694804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/10315014039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetestmag.com/userfiles/files/1969413098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stsmcc.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84666069640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourtruck.be/upload/ckeditor/file/pugatadoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/vakisewopozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36934222376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/wokusop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesifveotesi.com/files/sexuzowawulizululigovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133bc73a2f87---8300781501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurau.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/fuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/28431578495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deepakbatteries.com/uploads/file/26467280272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ta-taiwan.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/vezetutifiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprzybranowo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92896719781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoligioni.com/userfiles/files/buwipaxesuxulav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdsenfeng.com/data/files/nusebobalimujosagekuwadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhdrum.com/User_File/UpFile/file/20210901222851_ZHVrZW1hcGFzZW5lbGk=.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hostingureitings.lv/uploads/userfiles/files/58981756308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=android+messages+font+sizePDF 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_off0000d666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD666 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 5e02ecda83fa2488fdf10b71eccbb92d975f373482587003305dd6232520fa0d
font_01_sfnt_off0000eec2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC2 19600 bytes
SHA-256: d42160ab5e2cdb6ff23c9da5593fbc382efce8fbb9ba02ecc4ef59dba7f87731
font_02_sfnt_off00012117.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12117 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1