Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9740d6d514664e2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 18:02:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c77ef77cdaa07fd3baf19410a0a5a913 SHA-1: b1ed653b2cf10d893e384df85a9f4f9785374583 SHA-256: 9740d6d514664e2fb234074aa6a666cb6768d8f5e25331b0fb5fa38f69add31c
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs pointing to disposable domains, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution. The presence of embedded JavaScript (T1059.007) suggests it may be used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

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 http://yongqingtech.com/d/files/mibolupiduwadiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://steakpluspizza.us/userfiles/file/buvuniwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iciparis.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6236560168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motocams.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bimeviwikutosaxemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topaslt.com/userfiles/file/muravosuponategenekudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neksav.com/upload/ckfinder/files/refeniwumisejatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contact-house.com/fckeditor/upload/file/9939771908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeat.ru/var/files/vugodumizikutugujeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac79923d88---givejagiteja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dellalontra.it/userfiles/files/bepijogevumojobavaropek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efckrakow.pl/userfiles/file/95015273791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/32015451950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriardue.it/userfiles/files/91817041618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eskuvoiiranytu.hu/blog/file/70068289993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faithleader.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39455057185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345d526a08d---45978905854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanlacsclub.com/ckupload/files/jipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelite.in/userfiles/file/tavufinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spvi.cn/filespath/files/20210902060809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/62806687686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/44477210500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filtrydokoparek.pl/img/all/1159369735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ruchya.com.tw/upload/files/11106431704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qwerty.pl/_data/file/dozeketikaraxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=foto+samsung+androidPDF 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_off0000d908.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD908 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f11f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF11F 10492 bytes
SHA-256: fbfc2aec16811556a8402f009f6ced0bfe67790dca95417f2c9bdd1b0ecdd660
font_02_sfnt_off000108b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B3 16916 bytes
SHA-256: 82d67f400dd78d09f1735fe152888db6fb80035b832bf76d7379e0f57743eb3b