Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a00543dc89b24b6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 22:23:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: afed9456ef973740c6cee715c59daeb1 SHA-1: 8677909aa0af8106e2dfe7a961cabb13ca7b65e8 SHA-256: a00543dc89b24b6a631861c52a0869b0978a650abe9f2c7346a5a32ac9add2f2
74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to potentially disposable domains, suggests a redirection or phishing scheme. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

Heuristics 5

  • 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://www.kymenhome-etsinta.net/tiedostot/files/18276175984.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pushtypathshala.com/demo/aims/files/images/files/xunogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cisseo.net/userfiles/files/norezitozove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawrenceyezersky.com/userfiles/file/79021195138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents/files/30554991794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-pharma.net/data/files/99243704139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalqwerty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autofactory-jin.com/js/upload/files/92889081774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaputlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/1906217415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandipkumardutta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93301891865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/sawapezebiwugev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovstav.cz/app/webroot/files/files/92003458714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thucphamchucnangmy.vn/uploads/files/jofiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegneriarossi.it/userfiles/files/7068502793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c9e27bff12cf3731826eb4cfa6a02ff/zibegamejebaxipas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/xegikipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dondepodemosir.com/userfiles/file/xupijiwodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weorderfood.com/uploads/files/tawekebisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakakmanis.com/contents/files/1778209639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japanbizkorea.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/93220148458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://philly.drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/netewote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qishuochem.com/siicea/userfiles/file/97359517576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denimder.org/resimler/files/laxilufevejiduwoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurdua.com/contents/files/12842824978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aybar-gallery.com/userfiles/files/62090055702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxfirma.com/userfiles/file/mimujujajurinenixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=best+psp+games+under+500mbPDF 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_off0000bb3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB3E 15844 bytes
SHA-256: a0d0dcd41b15a421785c65a815cc06c4b4383600797c25e1ba478b6412444a5d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C7 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 42c10b8de51b33cea1873ba275889d5d541cdd07db84f36e331e09df63f7dc14
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD1D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1