Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b6f04184ca5a4fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-03-09 13:59:38 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-13
MD5: ad01ae76bfc102b12eecfd99b6fb419e SHA-1: e954c092a10d6ea1595925990b99e980be37b45f SHA-256: 9b6f04184ca5a4fec75c955105ddec2309229b4075bd805ef06dbb890bf373f3
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, indicating malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0' strongly suggest this is a phishing or malware distribution lure. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to redirect the user to one of the listed malicious domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://jumiwimov.ru/123?utm_term=all+about+me+student+worksheet+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://yandex-dostav.ru/breeding_time_dragon_city_guideiyahf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fofesali/jgHigUs/world_of_darkness_atlantis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anstel.pro/bhagat_singh_photos_freeepyg6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4505837/normal_602ca23eab2ce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vquest.website/7days_to_die_modsbwn0w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383688/normal_602e59673c37f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usacreditmonitoring.info/pdf_brochure_real_estatejhcx0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gujipiror/Eargjhj/siveletizope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385030/normal_601dc5be302e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/budafitanu/eFDHhbQ/songs_like_light_it_up_major_lazer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vanewano/53ghm30/slot_car_diary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-calm2.club/hidden_object_games_for_android_phones_free_download1voi4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://callup.today/trading_strategies_for_beginners_forex8py34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3e30b8ca-3240-4908-b6ac-d1c29edd5b11/how_to_properly_clean_honeywell_humidifier.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cdf4d9f2-dd8a-4cc9-b892-f7c328f46f3c/dixidopusexerotisujixupof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c308b831-528f-46f5-8e40-2213d1654d39/bejon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aa9b4ed4-0206-48b6-ae3d-561b6d6d206e/67805443434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/02d170c2-43ea-4d4b-b67c-5b856e71a3dc/7615043250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6ca03b56-73e6-43ed-a555-557fb6667421/tagebajusutafus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/071af79e-1afc-4e20-a117-9409b34e02a1/95547493377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8cdd7f17-709c-4cd0-97be-668ed4bad06e/java_software_architecture_interview_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2b2accb3-cb87-4dbc-81c1-dfc99378f290/divine_mercy_chaplet_song_ewtn.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC5 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 77af92c3794fb11fbb554345bc1cd68fc1072ccb33c28f9aa30e8099d9c987b5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCFC 10388 bytes
SHA-256: a759cc2235cd0d718476b1815926c936d301b04cbf99f67339adc82955be64af
font_02_sfnt_off00012082.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12082 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c