Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba131b637487caba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 21:54:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 3c125f6299a44dc6be8c1992dfa86fd5 SHA-1: 7015d5d39bad7d63cd8ebed541d5e11fcfd7ed4e SHA-256: ba131b637487caba0bdc06a00027c164eb3afba725281eaad47280f30ade103a
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many of which point to other PDF files, suggesting a link farm or downloader pattern. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick the user into downloading a payload. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://efnnma.org/files/file/16424187965.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lixupeng.com/uploads/files/20651562744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/29967426372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehr-mittenwalde.de/mediathek/files/tiramiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezgoe.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13921527453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ciesol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25724564691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentalrud.com/userfiles/file/mixilibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factblogs.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/favipusunatelafakok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koppeika.ru/userfiles/file/zarakekusesiguxujisumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noticiascgnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30378165130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ebc93d9f47---lufupewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/valaxovelidebefaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/44919782425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://we-women.de/default/files/uploads/file/defemerowewov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonezawanet.jp/units/24250/zcycom/files/91976291371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/86580242197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee89b7eb92---14916400437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanedantoptan.com/upload/files/nuzidubusogogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/mevawew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.info/contents/files/12871923091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/59423170911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ihdbd.org/upload/files/sesazemogusefolakikigara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensormaticltd.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3042941862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=mega+robot+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000d2d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eae9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE9 17652 bytes
SHA-256: 4b4d5e3d8683f735fda7a1e6e01afea1056479647c01d5268836a130e3019b1f
font_02_sfnt_off00011937.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11937 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 907ad4d63896d78e2cf8e4f1714c8b313ffdab57d0646c6ebc857683597f1196