Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acf93a80e1b179ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-14 02:15:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fec1ecc775ac05159d3ec8c67c370fec SHA-1: 9909e35de21fb0cb01efc49cc74c3dc1506a9155 SHA-256: acf93a80e1b179ee1955d20b171beda7b6907fdcf12ba538923077d764868027
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1071.001 Web Protocols

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a high number of external URIs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection to these malicious sites.

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=justice+league+mp4 PDF link annotation
    • https://whatshoulditcostme.com/userfiles/file/jiwagosenejimeviba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artistprasanna.com/userfiles/file/51733715622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/9287222297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otestmanager.org/club/data/userfiles/file/20210914061524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drlanda.hu/user/file/vadapedujixigeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.slappedtogether.com/editoruploadfiles/file/27725181768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhtoangalaxyhotel.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/wedimovojoxosasoxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurvedicclinic.org/userfiles/file/59750975483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emailing-online.fr/uploads/userfiles/file/46414931590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liftsystems.ro/LiftFiles/file/punekuzepejididej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theurbanthinktank.com/files/fileserunoponosemokip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fcc584c608---87125363315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/fajovebedumewiruvavaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f86fbb7ef20081e708b893a5c7a9a5e2/vafepadarafugetodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imahima.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/galiwitaxomonewijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2kat.ru/userfiles/file/52808069354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/FCKeditor/file/19511540150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ahcjevtqq.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66420159369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/talovogavoruvepemibumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ressourcengarten.de/azubi/userfiles/files/serixuzunevojixumukovobev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1000projects.ru/upload_picture/file/biwezetavufaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connectcontrol.net/files/userfiles/files/jutikadadubuzitu.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_off0000de55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f66c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF66C 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 052f252f23a2ef98cda9b9525f461cb4cfd2cffcf9d3a082c9101de2926305d1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ea2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EA2 18652 bytes
SHA-256: a3b6a216392471f5c5980323096b9b515e5786f22af7efffc9ee28a0060b7c3a