Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2cae142d9616728…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-27 03:28:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 1262139a5b4c78a74fa6d54583ecc16f SHA-1: a940e31e310d03e2df5568a208c15990fd6e77b7 SHA-256: d2cae142d961672886a9424b85006614a8cc83695022ffbf42a7f43be731a69a
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. The presence of numerous external URIs, including a link farm heuristic, suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious websites for phishing or further payload delivery. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+z+budokai+tenkaichi+3+ps2+rom+download PDF link annotation
    • http://sofia-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/23655486569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazzo.jp/js/upload/files/77625175808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalcenterhotels.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/59803278324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.info/userfiles/files/bimobokexen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serka.com/serka/upload/files/getajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpsacademy.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/wulinuwetezubotujezekek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/44221639272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/tivazoxowiropogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w3-japan.com/js/upload/files/11270125187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/64450470865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeverma.in/uploads/files/zexibiwodowukewapiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhconsultancy.nl/userfiles/files/66744753314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaphatmed.com/upload/file/wemokejarasisagamepuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/zelivalanamaxerulej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613368029e640---gudanasemizagefamolito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caogenzhiben.com/filespath/files/20210914122242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.ru/upload/file/jitabiseropibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caytrong.vn/Images_upload/files/55108165877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godahoian.com/app/webroot/upload/files/kekivali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k3projekt.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/matibizafexogisokonat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europacreativaeuskadi.eu/files/galeria/files/80697149683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/rojeruxavuzosomexoloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omnistopbollards.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luminulujuxejaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liceoadultos.juniorcollege.cl/userfiles/files/7543226687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gt-outillages.fr/ressource/site-image/files/59351562760.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_off0000b7a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7A5 11732 bytes
SHA-256: 2f313ea42e5de71b97cf06a7bdc74300e99966d1dca637f2c27dbd66b70e075d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d330.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD330 19172 bytes
SHA-256: d3909c419151a24b93deab09e1ef1d9e152a3a7eb2dfab78b862c85f51d865e8
font_02_sfnt_off00010543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10543 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1