Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba32e4594b507259…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 22:29:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 7bf56ea7e84bc1cb81d85fb445bd74cb SHA-1: 61a9d155a21a7dd02103c0c443b17e2a67bbf344 SHA-256: ba32e4594b507259160be9c20a91c777bffb5681a14699fb7e127e92e86c6b4f
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, with a high ML classifier score and ClamAV detection indicating malicious intent. The presence of a visual download button suggests a lure to trick the user into downloading a secondary payload, likely exploiting a vulnerability within the PDF reader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://bienchidan.org/uploads/files/nejirazugovezotimepim.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mlmrockstars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rinisumalokelujelameriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posh.hr/files/39550830603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.larche-de-jules.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69456579484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thegrcinstitute.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pudasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.praasia.com/file/files/bapuvapebina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifimmo.lu/userfiles/files/81734305324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/36330367512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b2cf8680a---23258501694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjbiotech.cn/upload/files/97030634795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/48662734879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detaycopymatbaa.com/userfiles/file/jisegigiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrix-corporation.com/upfiles/editor/files/87554839710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecpa.fr/uploaded/file/56335163299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geostudio.eu/userfiles/files/jowupariwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612faf9980e58---62669739880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartenvue.net/appart/upload/images/xusewipexinalaseguduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceroki.com/image/files/jotesidutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.llmhospital.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lufedilereze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simsvizag.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file///42130827895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/zigalopagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rspon.pl/images/wyswig_images/file/gobirupanale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equinox-e.com/upload/UserFiles/file/besalupopelikekurusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szm.hu/userfiles/file/koxowakefodiminatez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/kivudarumezusetunagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=isaimini+mobile+movies+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000e4bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4BD 17224 bytes
SHA-256: 6fed9c681251788a2db5ba7efce51e075e66e81fff98352210aa5f0397e63fb5
font_01_sfnt_off00011161.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11161 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012978.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12978 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 1e8196c90e9dc53941be88ce26e71f1078389c448b9dde3b73849aa1372152ef