Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e21bf23599e91670…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 16:12:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c568dd2a691337ad5cd1df83d3f2a2bf SHA-1: 5c5b1efc1a1faef6e0ee914e2f54114e16937071 SHA-256: e21bf23599e9167079bb6decb95b03051aefa37cef58d572f68cfa4020c749f5
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities or delivering malicious content. The PDF also contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to potentially malicious or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of a client vulnerability to execute code or redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://contua.org/userfiles/file/rimekumarasigotesafaledab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rothemtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_77844A33A10A7696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kustari.net/userfiles/file/77159792113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandrosso.com/js/upload/files/rufiwuwupesume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/34191807454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranthachcaodanang.com/uploads/image/files/guwinujugugoxufoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wmu24.ru/media/file/78871801601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk4education.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/630334382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaiger.ru/img/file/8223615091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullprotec.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duxutexijuzotasenoborixib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnatowski.pl/attachments/file/xekazukitefebumorejasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poddertradingandindustries.com/userfiles/file/bonamefimadimikezulugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324318b8e8b---xewulumefujemefamup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/60464966725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolataggiasca.eu/userfiles/files/32766568187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef936c1e0f---16880469870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shijijiaming.net/filespath/files/20210901060131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caissedesecolesdu5eme.fr/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buxilivodejuwixipugujega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oawebserver.com/piceditor/file/gokaxukemanivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/93255122499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://egitara.com/upfiles/files/25208211658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianrockies.info/files/file/47415754226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog/file/bebaxosikunavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=tv+online+iptv+apkPDF 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_off0000e480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE480 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC92 18036 bytes
SHA-256: 57d4c41245de4bb0c72407131c2b06b30c98cd7578ae112712d435d6ead52453
font_02_sfnt_off00012ae9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AE9 10096 bytes
SHA-256: 9cf9df5db1c44c164e84b38554ae81235496270013e7a64bb4afefe860a894fb