Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a05e2a96f39d133a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 22:43:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 53510f1835c692c9ecb2609720939f63 SHA-1: f06a0eae3dbba70963cb68eaa7150b3f0579a813 SHA-256: a05e2a96f39d133ad527d63fdc499414a6c759a52b5f36bd73a23b888306d303
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are structured as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection to these malicious URLs, potentially exploiting vulnerabilities or driving users to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2020+mx+player+update+app+download PDF link annotation
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/93997856404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candemdientu.com/Images_upload/files/6221277075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ropizinuxijifozawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasaitogo.com/uploads/files/28010156281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optikametuje.cz/userfiles/file/5819632570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/58358993622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milorem-service.ru/userfiles/file/9642627046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futimisdev.com/userfiles/file/juzisamef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/55318992225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uleshuzatshop.hu/files/file/wuwosulonirudiguvitaraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/giporamoraripejunolug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130dcf761607---zipiropuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/jepanazapabixala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niboparis.com/upload/fckeditor/file/1631615256_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/vilemexujoded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didula.ru/img/file/79919027407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/358857cf324162497da08fd1efa0ee0e/24334410695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusk-car.com/js/upload/files/86747735277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/lusegetowodivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadeco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/zibejufawutexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvif.fr/userfiles/file/31661902000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app0.linkeo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3306517566.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_off0000d4f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED09 16964 bytes
SHA-256: 537817735fa1ed98ffc875e16d74515b23b8bab362315b16550bd0b5311bbfdb
font_02_sfnt_off000118f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F0 10840 bytes
SHA-256: b1029a6a86e809a21912a8ab696c977f00daed71e3d8e9248ac7f75437b8e3e9