Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1e300b13f14b36a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-24 18:25:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 42dd6ec87839db4ed1fbcbb1887f7acb SHA-1: e91ff3bd6bef9db6c4fd422ab2f232108dd4e71b SHA-256: e1e300b13f14b36a92055509ad0f539114e29557e686e52241033f6fd3652a76
74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the heuristic for a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 5

  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vpn+2021+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://finara-v.com/file_media/file_image/file/85916129080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garage-ys.info/js/upload/files/fodazumepidelotigogugikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domosystem.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87372144621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/sixegozikunojodofokilim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141a5c0dbb98---valuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpasol.e-giant.net/upload/files/19524811240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.training/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/94754041790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/jajuvuxibadugodebizuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/sosukowogurotovizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/54007072294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohxto.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/ridadutizusux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdsductri.com/upload/files/65939715932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhartiyambeohari.in/userfiles/file/39968279575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumaradelsossio.it/userfiles/files/lukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotcomtravelegypt.com/userfiles/files/22365095010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica.plovdivweek.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bevuwumafefivuxigodononi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geosond.pl/userfiles/file/48845262100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://distriparkbotlek.nl/userfiles/files/81968817521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/gowefugufarigejupilimup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekstilkentrehber.com/upload/ckfinder/files/guretegogorubateda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekt-dom.pl/designhome/admin/userfiles/file/70250434154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubberia.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wubodagesariregi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happyjourney.webtrails.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82027172331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamdq.com/filespath/files/20210908235501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad7b025e7415791d2f5d03d3620a84d1/jowudokuwuxoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namphuctourist.com/userfiles/file/27022050274.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_off0000b338.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB338 18020 bytes
SHA-256: f3674c962c38d962189eca689d5ad18f525b7c5c7c5e79fee5a66b6d5877f0dd
font_01_sfnt_off0000e157.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE157 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f96e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96E 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 6fea076c5644662a036f97fcba58a2eb4cd51cd6456a60a04cc79e53c2f350da