Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 916b6f6f22707f61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 01:12:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 68f23a1393c3fe7513c9911431864334 SHA-1: aaeaad8c8ae0048fdd8dc812abba19572f4ab2fe SHA-256: 916b6f6f22707f61c7645bfbb134a0240b46da41ce99be7e71494acdeff97925
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It also contains numerous external URIs, with one heuristic identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these external links, which are probably used for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b73ef1bf2---41551214212.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://niagarablock.com/application/webroot/userfiles/file/35928482794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puseba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramor.bg/userfiles/file/nenavemaropixizame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arredamenticucinesiciliane.it/userfiles/files/36084819042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funbugs.ie/files/file/dulibaporerexes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theorientgarden.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/mevupibubafavokewajoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coutleelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pagesulukorusubalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeansresource.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56572481361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joltiy.ru/uploads/files/baxezasoxujow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gusanhightec.com/userData/board/file/62358698351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthlantern.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mabusagusoropawit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalace.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/77753054079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/60733044147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202109080701377102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/ruvaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/kojosukofuluxavikumevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishuntpesca.it/file/23354948776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/wufabupifurufupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annekienlen.fr/imagesfile/43659094999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmytour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_E8ACAD79EDE51B3D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionemusicaviva.it/uploads/file/98183829006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shrlie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909040235746764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noriupapildu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fabelevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=sega+emulator+android+multiplayerPDF 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_off0000db5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f374.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF374 10856 bytes
SHA-256: db3fdbc8b6b420731a2eefeac26c0492ba74baef4d5a4c0dc199851bf8efb060
font_02_sfnt_off00010c4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C4C 17932 bytes
SHA-256: 0214b23ae4c3ca0f8bb4e26ef505fe45ecdbdf1d75d0440888061dc44937d9be