Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1e8531c5756a866…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 06:53:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 549a9af87a99398cd7922400ae790545 SHA-1: 7af828a8c2a9c85aad31684172b40615efa243c6 SHA-256: b1e8531c5756a8660a78e7c1a842e0cc4f938a80a34c80b72b9da5a57dd33371
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, including one pointing to 'smidgel.ru' with a 'pokemon silver and gold download' UTM term, suggesting a lure. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of links on disposable hosting, reinforcing the phishing or malware distribution intent. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+silver+and+gold+download PDF link annotation
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/zuxubomojazofufozolisufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novastal.pl/userfiles/file/lufopejunaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africareview.in/userfiles/file/58568866812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makassitools.com/userfiles/file///vopozukupebibotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioscoponi.eu/userfiles/files/jiwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunyaminerdemir.com/resimler/files/27541162592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tktravelkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_39FB7BF65E5F1000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/50378615981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///vevajanegonogejonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelreviewreserve.com/basefile/hotelreviewreservecom/files/rekulitaviturisiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/roxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hetodon.com/fckeditorfiles/file/1549556868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/94099676449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synthecinter.com/userfiles/files/31609813314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonezi.morefriendship.com/upload/files/99851220826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135278d03f73---45881002526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manusingh.org/scgtest/eec-new/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75377330301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crocepadrekolbe.it/userfiles/files/16609545058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titibbs.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47100470823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estatecambodia.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/kiwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobath.com/app/webroot/img/files/pifelokusut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytlcases.com/userfiles/file/98047118026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rebigenupumukivomib.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_off0000d647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD647 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE5E 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 30caf39508e4a0a77c5b585b3cd1aeb53a26f3b6c7a97ca1fb5c18c740e4d24f
font_02_sfnt_off000106d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D4 16740 bytes
SHA-256: 62ea4c4cb9714f6295f651ce030d6d517501a949117632d2a4c75daa3dc950fd