Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bca33b5acf4132b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-10-03 06:48:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 902ea6927df3561ca9d94a40e460cc3f SHA-1: e6af29a31fd14927219476ce2d6bc7aa3e5aad48 SHA-256: bca33b5acf4132b4d336b4a4914213769dd3e7a2d9b2949c746bf0502acb4b95
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, indicating it is designed to redirect users to malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports that the document is part of a scheme to host many links on disposable domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=writing+title+page PDF link annotation
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/09/file/20987741476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unternehmensberatung-hegenbarth.com/userfiles/file/81478521658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/kajafalafevozovivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/xizob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/bifizovepifavoripoxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpsgk9tterm72knhv29t6rn7ra/vedumotuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39ab911e3b5afe25563ce38f8003084c/94136195898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/sizibudomafawizirawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giaynangchieucao.com/userfiles/file/54569743891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/14494614100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speedwayinfo.hu/uploads/file/naramiwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asremajazi.com/uploads/files/nezapidezenutalegenukil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harc-ias.vn/Images_upload/files/rikefipureju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/92245233652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdasesores.gestconcursal.com/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vupageliketizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhygiene.hu/editor_up/63900952798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volvo-cars.jp/js/upload/files/14619430588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metrosecuritynepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/93310007752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savaksangida.com/resimler/files/pogisaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/85402621538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pegasomeeting.medcoast.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8158336339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcon-aps.dk/userfiles/file/90829854314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/zedewesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valleyrentals.com/userfiles/file/56879751916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greassi.com/editor_upload/file/60837153292.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_off0000b0b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0B1 10132 bytes
SHA-256: 8745156c9d5e6ed96a5b689e6f369b48ed331e3bf0ff0427253733a33d6846ee
font_01_sfnt_off0000c766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC766 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 5f559842bcb9a48b43466e191684a2a0eb88a5a408eb6df5fc5cf1d7e8fddf7c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1