Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9476853d4e5d56df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 20:03:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6969c5c5dc53883618d8d01afaddd0e1 SHA-1: e8a3938e644c1bed3835449de92f299552968ffa SHA-256: 9476853d4e5d56df8c8fb65d371428e5614176b3105122cb20821466333aaa27
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to other PDFs, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is a common technique for executing malicious code within PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://maduraicaterers.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/baxap.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kanat.com/upload/ckfinder/files/85000971920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plovdivweek.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80493143073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.ch/fichiers/newsletter/file/pulakapameviloxomilafogis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/wapisasojekibukamap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/23314055866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtammatnamviet.vn/upload/files/63149434588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mardeestilos.es/fotos/file/nowopitodapibojifiruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martas.vodrsport.cz/uploads/files/37851147375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thingstodobahrain.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/givoduki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/fipifexanejugazimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio86.net/userfiles/fichiers/82949423315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibonatura.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/937613172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phukienbep.net/media/files/tawixedomafabejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianspringhomes.net/userfiles/files/jesabivizetixilejaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613440fb5298b---ruvekosaxirumizudupedazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/jobituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtongrongshang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210914123753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/bepekorabizobasanili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/lugisid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/mananugekubisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d8bb28fc13---xeloxudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineuniverse.us/userfiles/file/99287819018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/36421467334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/wugidovoberaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=play+store+marketingPDF 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_off0000e41d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE41D 17920 bytes
SHA-256: 1478d2bd18b66fd9168a49f03efe1dcad3876cbb5a4f6d199322bb1ccb8860c9
font_01_sfnt_off00011277.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11277 10660 bytes
SHA-256: e2d2e40bd8929eff2d6489cdc720ca97c9a0e0277cec6c0735eab399ab41bb94
font_02_sfnt_off00012af5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1