Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e41ebbfac0c146c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.1 KB Created: 2021-10-08 13:57:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 57aa2b1d0a0a266a8b62c2eba0806a09 SHA-1: bcf494abc929b0ff78c7fb98b52c1855c440aece SHA-256: e41ebbfac0c146c95ec858ae4e54e1e43389275b99500c7072152f6b62f14e8c
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript likely redirects users to external URLs, as suggested by the PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics, which are often used for phishing or to download further payloads.

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 http://henca.com/files/details/file/74503925034.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://digitaluzaktanegitim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/68576135699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210906164354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdjshg.com/files/file/xaribojijowofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-cities.com/blog_images/blog_/file/36198007893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.net/d/files/18261732820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etest.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/mubepadupebezojutipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginniglobal.com/uploads/file/povuxidufujujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huangs.tw/uploads/files/202109242221253347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/83521949531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamsurgerycn.com/ckupload/files/josekotidejetivotizafoxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///vinesavogomaden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w3-japan.com/js/upload/files/84462116832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintmaster.hu/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3300394787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsydesign.com/userfiles/jws/files/zotosunefawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spad.kr/userData/ebizro_board/file/26980210982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanfrancescovet.com/userfiles/files/bukudegaxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotlinepro.in/admin/userfiles/file/litinuwesumipeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16158e250788c6---82909258783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cross-winds.in/upload/contents/images/images/vegozawivumiwolakifivuxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetaime-shop.dvsportbg.com/files/92939320694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=which+life+insurancePDF link annotation
    • https://www.thc.gda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27091718390.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_off000118b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118B5 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 969126896e36a12654b16764b79830e03973c52661938cf93639a8b8f36e937c
font_01_sfnt_off00012fda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000147ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147EC 21016 bytes
SHA-256: 90f80e2ac4f1e314709559eb8a52cd6bd34a44584c68030079c22bd221accdfe