Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4a1a6f9be9bcf0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-10-03 01:43:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 898fc8f1d88ee375b3d10b86b244fb9f SHA-1: 66d2a5116e35af36b4149fc3bcc917aee29d1f4e SHA-256: c4a1a6f9be9bcf0d9dc3b6d3d27f3b23598a2a837288e0ca0ef0557a2e215fdd
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the numerous unknown URLs suggest a phishing or redirection campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading further payloads or revealing sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image/files/25355053327.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://standartbio.com/fckfiles/file/migavamofegalutotola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanchang.chinatupai.com/web/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lafanidofenelibigenad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcremich.lu/files/files/xebatagitit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dexemegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkuysuujk.handysociality.com/upload/files/wopelekunemutif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratorioshamalab.com/userfiles/file/68786240171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebottombillion.org/business_school/uploads/file/66331845068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srub-servis.ru/userfiles/file/romizifadezemuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57059313532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenithoverseas.com/assets/userfiles/files/91145303835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaplaitalia.it/userfiles/files/zelivuzoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakineshr.az/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bidol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softtox.com/new/userfiles/file/53004841579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zensushidanapoint.com/uploads/files/2189456764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sedefartphotography.com/resimler/files/ririjurul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokebarslo.com/uploads/files/73494622252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylabawadi.ae/userfiles/file/dodipamiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j4ji364qtqrc4r7cntbft52t24/nokivuwepabirixunuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tyextractor.com/d/files/48774069244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/16308903352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f5051ada2c---18825134415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/zozugupilibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/51532297088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/1760233047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/8188406356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=the+last+of+us+pc+steamPDF 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_off0000b83c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB83C 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 7fb5a50d9bf179af130ef13d821582b348dd0c5bc81efe4e1ae27a753a24feb8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d043.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD043 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e855.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE855 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 8819f4a1f005e2c40245e482913ef8eb4da072e9912f18865e872c9dfbbc19e3