Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e17e9e47f6f3488e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-10-05 22:45:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: b955fa70025908c80bc33a9990e739e2 SHA-1: 49a5218907c6b52394fbd89d867d77b990218c0c SHA-256: e17e9e47f6f3488ed8791e27b742e43ae1f8cb3eeb5a76f15ef7d1811ab024c9
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm PDF. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a strategy of using numerous distinct hosts for a small PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156a6ea791b4---37279843486.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/199df400d5a80abb98cd5604545cf7f2/lewaxefugexilufekapoboxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supair-lux.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fifiburuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsdienst4you.de/bilder/file/78658272752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/26484938882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wimborst-ceramics.nl/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/besabevojiganoroparo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmytour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_B20EB220F62F65F5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infunplastic.com/d/files/tanagapupekop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://captaincook.hu/userfiles/file/44272259281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnktools-th.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pozarudenalibumixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siblom.ru/files/upload/file/miwujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mondoacquapiscine.com/userfiles/files/35022212640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentauto23.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50570872200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtammatnamviet.vn/upload/files/65745982471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanruou.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/56882376192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamor.org/userfiles/file/xatizojuvogefubemodevute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/zuxepozexezoxugitutugude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ain.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/likawasati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av72-reklama.ru/userfiles/file/1630879204494ad58006c47a30f51c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/57570334169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanabuauto.com/js/upload/files/fiwavaxudositib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsclinicwest.ie/media/contents/file/41267694797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/lojudebefawujugufase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/8364284585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msdoubrava.cz/foto/images/file/mogatixukokajisatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nordiskvillaventilation.dk/userfiles/file/pajid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okul.gencreklamajansi.com/uploads/files/xisonakepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=naming+other+organic+compounds+worksheetPDF 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_off0000cf1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF1D 18552 bytes
SHA-256: 8a92223c2163dea7af9ccc7891899c705eb4719f4a6756a4b9e8e011601120a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fee0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000116f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116F7 11172 bytes
SHA-256: f54c359e21e729a90eae7858efcee5693ba9893a84f043e91af7e53a5b980ca3