Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acb8c946f8a69fd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-28 07:36:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e5e5d0c00e865bd8b506e15ccff160b9 SHA-1: fbedf3873e6a33f26d44f03911f1f4ace24750c7 SHA-256: acb8c946f8a69fd5a7d37a66878ac454b5f19c0e4d474e5512e90bde0d902244
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or obfuscate the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=allcast+for+fire+tv PDF link annotation
    • https://apgr.eu/UserFiles/file/vivexusawegus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partroyfuneralhome.com/partroy/assets/file/39571991614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614eb7810f437---biwivabevixemama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity-c-t.com/userfiles/file/86977658147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieucoingason.vn/files/sifijubopowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecargonepal.com/userfiles/file/wefetujodetumeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38122533611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debseven.net/UserFiles/File/64850619917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80652843477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/87633312193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/lidilipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamcohoaian.com/webroot/img/files/26077175762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pagodatalk.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/wanomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://distant-property.ru/fck_editor_files/files/vudoxonivajijaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netwindowvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zuwamimifinugovij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://responsible-tourism-alliance.com/content_file/files/xotanopifosavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohxto.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/23972960338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatdarshan.net/rgroup/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pisejefebedofovojurikixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franciscovalles.comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/51812638945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahcarpets.com/userfiles/file/tukeduvepipevowona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://membranekeyboard.pl/_data/file/tovusozenizugiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garagehayashi.com/js/upload/files/87253719620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butzbacher.turnpoint.jo/app/webroot/upload/files/1795428516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albarossa.jp/js/upload/files/62244109316.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b58f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB58F 10272 bytes
SHA-256: fd6deeaeeac1b278715aaf13eae87c5a11f595aad53e72de7f9bc20699c23035
font_01_sfnt_off0000cce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e4f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F2 2044 bytes
SHA-256: 9ff0be215eda4510cc1b192ab1b3482226358aa5dcf0ff2a485682e2549b9830
font_03_sfnt_off0000ee4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4B 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 9878b69559395797b661bb07a22801702c3aba181c43730147e032b36a3ba564