Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96923977861799c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:41:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 63e6f042da77ad631d5c213c4cb86cf1 SHA-1: 6fcaa4f5ee14172b0cb7444713047d46a9f24179 SHA-256: 96923977861799c701003e71382e526b2bfdb5de114f208729c73f91debc49f4
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable domains and are part of a link farm, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading a secondary payload via the deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/1259087396.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://renewone.de/files/kemijimupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orlickachata.cz/files/files/82331516642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenhungstone.com/uploads/image/files/22006435439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--bankkrtya-41a.hu/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rugojuxoxuwezifajuzuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/nafale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beganijewellers.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fibekuxafaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deaprogettazioni.it/userfiles/files/69669538794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/74000088147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geerhannutpourreussir.be/docs/upload/files/megofamona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138a9cf67ad8---22720871033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents/files/61647472756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://produktybhp.pl/pliki_user/File/34953927997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruishikaishi.com/upload/content/files/2021/09/20210913035922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/67515944061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexconsulting.ro/webroot/files/media/genelusoladad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/41366129151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/menalened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigaintan.com/contents/files/96622305627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplo76.ru/uploads/file/vaxixomagitazujipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korealabels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koxexifupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jgweld18.com/UploadFile/file/20210908180014813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvagcentr.ru/userfiles/files/66918262353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=raees+full+movie+download+for+mobilePDF 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_off0000e571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE571 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 3fbc9efb4c0fb5f078f7c3fcd1d8111f648ad3878718cac6ca10bd91fb93c905
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001169e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1169E 17636 bytes
SHA-256: 31b40146e2a68959f43870ed043ea3cd6c20a8cbae365a52e657b692843ffe75