Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d16eaa1bb6d81789…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 23:42:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 98e79e45b4c4d925598b4a82ab765534 SHA-1: c20aba547839f27c65cf26cd724f98eae03374c3 SHA-256: d16eaa1bb6d8178978213529c8d1541cf56a7f208230ed77ecd892658d3d0ec4
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for delivering malicious content. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with a high number of external URIs pointing to various domains, many of which are likely disposable. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and the ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded JavaScript and numerous links suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://njchemland.com/upload/files/fabowofudibute.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://weldingportal.it/userfiles/file/63636121644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1666-3668.com/attach/userfiles/file/jirekuzoxelenebosoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schachverein-marchhoefe.ch/fcsr/news/upload/file/neterufebederojexusuzare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1acf/files/file/dudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverkarenisandby.se/UserFiles/files/beranunoriwezimefajolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bc2000.order-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97983428538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/lofezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agenziaimmobiliarecannavo.eu/userfiles/files/futavexozukevuloluzuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plovdivweek.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22198475570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artechq8.com/beta/uploads/files/57988510433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citranco.com/users/files/tugiriteba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/26982643796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://napraforgohotel.hu/upload/file/68876543143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///xaron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelikonline.ru/content/Files/27805766617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nixomepomanazowobedutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiamelchior.it/images/file/87255123497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydeothe.vn/rich_editor/file/gatupogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duragloss.pl/userfiles/file/botubosobin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetesopo.eu/userfiles/files/47218734561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/53050860431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajej.pretty-match.com/upload/files/79764460528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-9/file/67156265685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=game+hack+app+apk+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_off0000d879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD879 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 6f7e7faf29f2d3ff70adc7b6373e31293c3c017396c5078e710f39a71f5a619a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f053.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF053 17508 bytes
SHA-256: e60b08ed0e1453252b2e7be2184e5dbb4fee1003dec008d8b8d86139c82900a2
font_02_sfnt_off00011d3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1