Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ef8287f9d1a1296…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.6 KB Created: 2021-03-15 07:28:52 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 295118c7998cd219fdedade946da252f SHA-1: 76aa032457bb0429696b5fa1f0e20cd21ce7ac3d SHA-256: 9ef8287f9d1a1296f811baec60559fa026735f0e29abe1ba73d18ef6bae72225
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains heuristics indicating it is a browser extension/update installation lure, a common social-engineering tactic. It also contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are likely part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • 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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=deploying+oracle+database+11gr2+on+redhat+enterprise+linux+7 PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4447096/normal_6000da434c575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sodahub.pro/2_nephi_9_306kkzj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4463263/normal_603cb7a0e40a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poradoit1.site/shadow_adventure_hacked1m6xr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://front-glass.space/bosquejos_biblicos_gratisr1tmx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laulu-go.ru/bovovenuwuzunet90bn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mklhhhh.space/costanzo_physiologyr1rrz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464877/normal_60040d5260cc5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palawawez.mypressonline.com/lugagagizevelutej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axecheat6.xyz/teach_english_online_jobs_from_homenaz6g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prod-fruit.space/evaluna_y_camilo_cancion_nuevad94ou.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481067/normal_602d5af11a8c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483354/normal_6044615e7c472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowuterada.mygamesonline.org/22210572739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tezude/idea_of_justice_book_price_in_india.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/264ba2ab-1d27-4c26-a667-601b6ed18be1/pbh_iptu_on_line_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/midizaxopazeji/limomenerokiwodotematu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3813f3a3-78d2-4978-a11f-b112d6eee774/sosum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0791b1c0-6857-4262-9297-e84a3b8efead/what_are_the_trending_songs_right_now.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dojonuta/holcim_philippines_annual_report_2017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/907f15fd-3c0a-4667-926a-23c69f87ec98/what_to_do_when_needle_is_stuck_in_sewing_machine.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000154fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154FB 5908 bytes
SHA-256: 60b821342a88cd2e8f9ccf519fc5f10d88ac0877d33f0703470c956c974ba452
font_01_sfnt_off0001691e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1691E 1800 bytes
SHA-256: a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
font_02_sfnt_off000171ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x171AB 12540 bytes
SHA-256: 01383698442d1e64e14536f72f2bac4a7b6dc3d8d550734e71579223398b52d1
font_03_sfnt_off00019c9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19C9A 16632 bytes
SHA-256: c50702d4acfbab276db04c5221898060464ebd298806f96ba401251afed68d5e