Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7a8bba99eabffda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-10-04 15:00:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 856d69691f3a12619d021181a4ebe14f SHA-1: 25ec41522d9e6fc86b400a7be12c415751cd55b8 SHA-256: b7a8bba99eabffda019d5ad39ef097cd42bec67526bae28a0feae1d7d52f8f04
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a strategy to distribute many links across various hosts. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to obfuscate the malicious intent or redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://police8coop.com/UserFiles/file/44233039371.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gifarlcm.com/upfiles/editor/files/35080912542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/21689453944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpisiluman.com/contents/files/40259912218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vino-charlie.cz/userfiles/file/kijafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/15413669074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalafiber.com/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22362677089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volandovia.it/public/fileeditor/file/muvenafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghobaoan.com/uploads/files/63118712514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210915204729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63708174212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021091419012673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/60384351166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kant21.com/userData/board/file/20449340403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavo-bazar.cz/userfiles/file/33912883535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viceda.com/userfiles/file/debulilopepefodokudufuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/99211989983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57601236937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16158766304b16---ludirefokizufulen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agilesolutions.in/uploads/92381530697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/73971216177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161580187002c0---4489588772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/65238576261493caee5b5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/69895930209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=losing+smell+with+sinus+infectionPDF 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_off0000d4b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECC9 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 39e13306fe17776f8714a383a22358c9d95f4c9101f0a1973b67ff64a8fda84d
font_02_sfnt_off00010510.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10510 17716 bytes
SHA-256: 56d81e738d2682f8a68ae954df230b0696fa2b374a78aff1ed2d813a5fe07e34