Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca862042ff470f61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 03:29:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 463ed3d08c068f798db81d7ccedee10a SHA-1: 5d911079c251b563281a0b97d2e1d33671cb54da SHA-256: ca862042ff470f61fce24ed9698b152e47332a4d79f762f0735f9095552cb192
82 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 ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external URIs, many on disposable hosting, suggests a link farm or phishing lure. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to redirect the user to one of these external sites, potentially for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=alien+from+mortal+kombat PDF link annotation
    • http://faurerom.com/userfiles/file/71636885179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiangsutravel.kr/userfiles/files/20210910_190233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwangallant.com/uploads/files/202109081253406651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/77821901419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9jamail.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/nugikejaziwebox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laulumaja.fi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19127782394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hasmow.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pamaxidapezij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://genarchi.com/data/temp/file/pafijilolelinela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival-bg.com/media/ckuploads/files/lumesawatul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/boditupotokiviwokutajunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/file/3124958539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210906110648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motoren-adachi.com/js/upload/files/6790235989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a0d74b90f6---dikaraki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614306387e443---sozosunejaruxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/kikinowewojidaxabaned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xanoxojezifexawonofalena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/11280494051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasset.bg/userfiles/file/10863076733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buildingexpertsdirectory.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nozuxolijuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/86090205730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjiangchem.com/upload/files/fopejesugadexilolufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/59093696003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enilubricant.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/pafawiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easyown.ddproperty.com/datas/files/70335858414.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_off0000edb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C2 18204 bytes
SHA-256: 87cabe104c72849405a9a71c5e7ccbe7371bd19310df89c1092b8eea19c19d52
font_02_sfnt_off0001359c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1359C 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 373a9c7efa0215bccbf7030e5efa7c25d2794ec0b17e1a811042dc58d8f93a31