Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d096bd8b2dfe63d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-26 00:08:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f4341898a62b9af1d2f12a32403c54df SHA-1: 611f2975b3ddbb12d2b7a521dec31f0d95df7a96 SHA-256: d096bd8b2dfe63d4f909b7826c43f32ad6988e5996618fb492d8fc629d07bacd
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=physics+2+formula+sheet PDF link annotation
    • http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210914114315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vixofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/34884500781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/54769839520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyrosesschool.com/userfiles/file/barufalimol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duplisite.com/userfiles/file/repinegagarawatizerago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugrctrani.it/userfiles/files/75686887297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fernandopelosini.it/userfiles/files/xawonidonuvip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87912561082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://egyptlance.com/userfiles/file/49102462282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prabashproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kobesuzetutaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfasg.jp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gosavakexeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunpower.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73941879344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seger.cz/userfiles/file/70297100950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamexmarket.com/uploads/files/fawenuzananoluxefebesaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jepajezofepixosatewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-ultratech.com/files/xolafafojulano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynxitservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61353630400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/74538511457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srtprogetti.eu/userfiles/files/4359702201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138f7ee3e9a9---lanawidojojafatadupop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongwave.com/userfiles/file/wilunemusurikufulim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vpmemorial.net/images/file/9567485925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161306995b0f5b---41033141667.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_off0000af58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF58 15092 bytes
SHA-256: a91a848348ba4463446c5fa0d612bbb87f26114d57deb1c1407c250c4246c07b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000edb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB9 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 96bdc1cc764f4e9f24a589ccd6a9e3dfd7eda6562927bc8e595d8112b351089f