Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaf213c4dc7d9b01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:16:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f95456187be526fd215263030742f2c6 SHA-1: 040973ce082b05543b366c42f05ae236bcd568bd SHA-256: aaf213c4dc7d9b01afbb010ddb32e229fe99d229b79635ad6d842bb603d5e725
134 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 and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The sample also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to potentially malicious content, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://spadhotel.com/basefile/spadhotelcom/files/61413403717.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/dafopewununosenigakulezek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testpensija.bankai.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21867958759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cropscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/2013735093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetesopo.eu/userfiles/files/61847132781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtrak.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gekofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhaxuongbinhduong.com/upload/files/48463405074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varida-tech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vexevebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/48609985296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noelex22.org/userfiles/file/ludefefonenefix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miyadenthai.com/image/upload/File/11051921606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asoriofrio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kepukajodisagevepexakobaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melly-incendie.fr/img_db/20995420589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/24895532842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istvietnam.com/rich_editor/file/78953276975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjmhospital.org/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8430348692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klick-tipp.info/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/rawarikukarumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birizgardenhotel.com/userfiles/file/27191599748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/jujutuzuxonuguwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurau.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/87483116823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/10783047893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dedanskecasinoer.dk/userfiles/file/56234442962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905104814346019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/365ijck9ht99rf1dm55fc51uik/42591259585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szamitogep-szerviz-javitas.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29966813669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=gta+sa+lite+adrenoPDF 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_off0000bd7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD7B 16168 bytes
SHA-256: d531c92b8be50c7c072626f01d1f602c99317e0dd70527c4f37a3e57b67764a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e77b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE77B 10280 bytes
SHA-256: d22a035fc2b790091d9327291a4cdbe57025156fc6c5a5486aa8e11aa0f2ad41
font_02_sfnt_off0000febc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1