Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c25b0708dd53eb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:27:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 75e8f90680e4d5c556fc7b5cb4d3fcf5 SHA-1: bee3db1265d1c36cf89a6e75e6158540c732d61b SHA-256: 8c25b0708dd53eb152f87eec2e2c983a340ebc1a10e1ea475e518b5af8f288ca
74 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 contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to potentially malicious or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to deliver a harmful payload or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://tion.hu/upload/file/78969351376.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133e4b13c127---35210340742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serenetour.com/image/upload/File/tibotetilukamamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldoris.com/upfile/files/20210906061255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kroonzuivel.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22771559668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf41119b4477b7385bab1508aec0e13c/werozovolipapemosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210910065408248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolkataangikar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32152057154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmottaviproductive.it/uploads/file/kijakotanepajedazenevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chulatutoracademy.com/chulatutor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6846337204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sincaremedicaltour.com/js/upload/gemaraga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flex-link.cn/uploadfiles/files/xokukewopelagopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corianderedmonton.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ridizirumejusekulufuzusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lazerom.pro/media/file/wurawupaferixejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://begili.com/uploads/image/files/3467537387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/85269883755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/bubinepudaxarogexoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96873469753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swancentive.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/valoxaxegulaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saothienemb.com/uploads/images/files/33865386341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/userfiles/file/zovudopuwifofuwuneviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.agencesramos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hu/files/sizesujaradojas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=hotspot+shield+premium+apk+indirPDF 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_off0000c2f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2F1 18988 bytes
SHA-256: 126b921b6e503f6c79a691dfe18a31e2881d8099a2b6d95cac5a9dcb33488fec
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3FD 10840 bytes
SHA-256: b81639ecea5b2b771b375dc83a3422d3129e02ab488e6997e6940322ea09bb6b
font_02_sfnt_off00010cc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1