Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96ab757c4d3cf5e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-28 02:10:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: a50efdb32dca789a37363ff42de0eb4f SHA-1: ef522dd7cba317eb7dd90f257a4099c8f1e3f709 SHA-256: 96ab757c4d3cf5e4c9db10ff5046b976f257a10829f6f20ccabbc66e4eeb07e9
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 malicious websites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests the document's purpose is to act as a link farm on disposable hosting, likely for malware distribution or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apps+movie+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://pibar.tw/uploads/files/202109181551343957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazhonghua1688.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95058406592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0968428001631875525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/pikopuwanulolefukasemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidichike.com/upload/files/vevizizejutux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linker.tw/files/32246372062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nycsmindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lirebajotemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29567483423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tonamowagenejazolazopoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raffaelecavazzoni.com/userfiles/files/33934238955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edv-denk.com/userfiles/file/xedaxutulawisefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techmechengineers.com/uploads/82989872835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shceping.com/upFile/photos/2021-9/file/xivebugirosiruxufete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stcforanebanglore.smcim.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10449965960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexvp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kegefewemazusab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanjutpt1.com/contents/files/mibixesasajefuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdtrafficticketlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rebida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnimeina.it/userfiles/files/73200547586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilsungwarehouse.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/9805512354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamaeassociates.com/images/uploads/originals/file/xokiwavuzoravobibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henghuitong.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210903131002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zsmnowakowski.pl/userfiles/file/56381442731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/rirapesefexogagobilofajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aostavet.it/userfiles/files/81337965673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aalzkj.love-mrt.com/upload/files/pubab.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_off0000b341.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB341 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 06e8531d7dad365055f95d8807f89cb87558a72a46ce5cde788b2efc968b8d25
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB57 15512 bytes
SHA-256: 853fcc1d2547e601d7dc0dc81ce8b60109b93408be16aadcf53a8cacdde33d90
font_02_sfnt_off0000f24e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF24E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1