Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b41471ca7a5596d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 03:11:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4a339ced08abecd347061ddb2429e2f9 SHA-1: b3d327e37974e25bc455d1840d5fbab0b5058408 SHA-256: b41471ca7a5596d8d8288f44f72c809661cd8b99977bd91424f5d97f2407afc8
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, indicating it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests the document's purpose is to host a large number of links on disposable domains, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adb+command+not+found+on+mac PDF link annotation
    • http://hotelamadeustorino.com/userfiles/files/jajopanorelijof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferest.ro/imagini_ws/56470384771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/faranixomuwefazojotel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/xipupelefivaxigisuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c79ee73e567c527dfa665faa762fa2b3/linolijujovadeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arsvet.ru/img/upload/44499695988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210908224424460957hpxu4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apatity.verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zagofedokolisejowixuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroear.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gemalelifufidix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lovesagunitojek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sierrainstruments.cn/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202109/file/78483699221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquatherm-graz.at/files/vagef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilipoupoli-drama.gr/lilipoupoli/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51869812485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.fortunekenya.com/callmark/files/53733899441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuvasarkar.org/userfiles/file/54101747936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlangkhan.com/upload/userfiles/files/5926015730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145e2f227716---loneborin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylplj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lejeguzovezixelenotazof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wdnederland.nl/file/wijidegivuzesaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekt-dom.pl/designhome/admin/userfiles/file/dosupuwujifawewotosuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/70289852376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salocchi.it/userfiles/files/42674048906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cps-mbstu.edu.bd/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41633775769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okvin.org/userfiles/file/zejolinatimisizidu.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_off0000ecae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C0 23372 bytes
SHA-256: d03fe56e90f7e82dc3041f1c81f3c65e54129990200b4e05d1f798d73e323473
font_02_sfnt_off00014109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14109 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 6820cef02ddcc47abe9edc52bee565adabefb3dca0aff6543953f84d20c57e2f