Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fa338a52dbe78fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 14:16:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 009a700bb07393df7b4301a77c1780e6 SHA-1: 18cafb35b90bd3506963f48f2323746c3b72124d SHA-256: 8fa338a52dbe78fac6c5d130169be0d80fe0ee052efc75b2cab679a214aa92e7
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, indicating it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of embedded JavaScript points to its use in exploiting PDF viewers.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+pes+game+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/85008909926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsiaoying.com/userfiles/file/46151327063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogallerani.it/userfiles/files/wonusewisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/29092163510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engcaphone.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/nogali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winteringlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xamatisejigiviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.com/images/file/varuveliripiraxesevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noriupapildu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kilinarilabakokugagez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23f27fb3a7877c578179221c77787d58/worobalapafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/85360324112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.cz/files/files/19388489321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26efcac1c8d770c179f178857b95caee/sabejafonajidis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyacer-ecp.com/userfiles/files/20210914_090725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francescasciortino.it/userfiles/files/lazizotepote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofar-france.com/userfiles/file/28075600136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ramseier-appenzell.ch/elrada/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74816904041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatugigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gifiluzetodosirenosiwigod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://degardo.hollandpazsit.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78879801543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hatinhjobs.com/upload/files/nopinekonomijejivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/3200812686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-nora.com/userfiles/file/fesaxalukadajavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/mefemenudadur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/86916942761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photojet.bg/userfiles/file/wolobuvulubazutubok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/26376914162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turchifiltri.com/userfiles/files/kuvelikusapofawavaxire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3asoft.vn/img/files/42169349386.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_off0000f1ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1EC 10848 bytes
SHA-256: fbf13be2dc3528ac03a9ea12137aecca457742828e7e8b7493c52bfb009b7b01
font_01_sfnt_off00010aca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122DC 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 9b59feb3328cc80671ef8e8b7577098b162bef1e74d8778bb26ee45f425bb83e