Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a42dee7741e7259f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 03:46:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: ee77c8cb2737275e3f155c92dfd93f30 SHA-1: 22b18ec00178a233f41e49c6c81f837f5dfc3b30 SHA-256: a42dee7741e7259f0bce8618f0f35cbcc2807b60a704d708cd59e77f14f69ec1
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high number of external URIs, many pointing to PDF files on potentially disposable domains, strongly indicates a malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support this, flagging the file as malicious, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://thebookmarkcafe.com/uploads/files/sujafuxaxusojupiguz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://embeddedhr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuzokemuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fabdf7cd80581a8f057af47da805fbf0/25600649855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeykrishnaclub.com/images/file/sizukepimozupize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ghadir-eng.com/userfiles/files/86337707064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yacpa.org/yacpafiles/file/46580327206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/70055399410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xavat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamtamphat.com/upload/files/noguturezezadoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicamanila.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tanixejiguvasap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderia512.com/js/upload/files/dixazifizapuselux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immopolignano.lu/images/kawaworul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mokhalasati.com/userfiles/files/24509251825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olymp-kiev.com/temp/fckeditor/file/dobujomexabifimob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.integra-cr.cz/administrace/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10075347741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/fenipeboxasadexufijixewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/74737299064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumusjitu.com/contents/files/gutabiwofabuxijosorabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hibertek.com/image/files/20210909_004959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/sivosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pattarasawat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11143742400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60d7dae286e7b6b0044a0a2429a9ecc7/59163051453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commissioncollectionlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/53422516017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=competitive+strategy+cost+leadershipPDF 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_off0001121a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1121A 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 0ea87aa073566a1522fc8b02354ad5cf41e51d575d1d4c2d090cd28d40884414
font_01_sfnt_off00012bc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BC0 19276 bytes
SHA-256: 88087c4ed2e63ae59b91a9ee1e371e6563e15b45b0447682393ecabeedb96cb2
font_02_sfnt_off00015dde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1