Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e2c71a2866169e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2021-09-24 19:18:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 929ad1c24c836d11c27f7426ff78b3ec SHA-1: a8907ede5d03ead89bf47dc76ec6e6b35491959d SHA-256: 8e2c71a2866169e818fbac59de11581677a8fafc08b1aaf35b9b3cf713d15999
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by an ML classifier and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including an image-only design and embedded external URIs. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code, likely to redirect the user to a compromised website or initiate a download. The document's structure and numerous external links point towards a link farm used to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 6

  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f13aacd7a61190d24279d14562a7bdbe/94974490755.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://picinterior.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14619042757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gshosnab.ru/userfiles/file/wajajerexal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centaur.vri.cz/docs/files/tebugedowepija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tttinox.com/upload/userfiles/files/32664521919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/92848800969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahyuh.com/uploads/files/202109121322117895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/48970090361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.ph/app/webroot/img/files/86185255507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heydarbaba.org/resimler/files/55378386480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snieznik.pl/userfiles/file/navajux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sreekanakananda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91131002477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espritgt.com/userfiles/file/73390175047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/17085670381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawaress.com/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mopesudomimomilar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengyaweb.com/uploadfile/file/2021090412233439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rurisnet.org/images/file/lugeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/62443982945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insuralead.com/userfiles/file/73669496328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuoredicane.it/userfiles/files/melabalepebuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210907_230547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amcdkmhb8qpiuh6qbimo9ukkck/lobepezanab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=play+games+with+10+ladies+mafia+cityPDF 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_off0000aadd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAADD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c2f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2F4 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 2a03ef9aeb8f2b4e79e1e6710b46dfbcd2ed2d7d0825249cbf4fa4895daa43ed
font_02_sfnt_off0000dc67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC67 14116 bytes
SHA-256: 07c341d3a171fc4f13e278dee1cb4c42e047641054aa2f2953cfb9b5ef3343c1