Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8e37860caca7269…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-10 15:03:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 27106f457145c55aed7d4f90ce99aae1 SHA-1: a84efa6a9e039712d8b9e5d80df579454a302b95 SHA-256: f8e37860caca7269e83da7e8e3422cdcc846d4e71f4d4665d4a4cb8b039a4832
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 sample also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to various domains, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or distribute payloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/xogekig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://smsalumni1971.com/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/59041993375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1afklwjc5g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2506133838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jj-metals.com/userfiles/file/2021090316190473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipp-haberland.de/images/upload/file/7223012911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmarzillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mazunojopiwolanuzaxejuvad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbmedaks.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/74983532699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-plovdiv.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64599163692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.520amis.com/upload/files/60762876549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchise-vietnam.com/app/webroot/img/files/80300300725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/38828154625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hftyby.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908115705397520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wami.cc/data/files/kifirekada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nonimiwawupejujekugeromub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ityab.com/cache/fck_files/file/22929153439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.performhabitat.fr/bundles/astadmin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77922568876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouwbedrijfbouwheer.nl/userfiles/file/jofigedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rmgoals.com/userfiles/files/89982529133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasavar.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34303539859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex.tj/img/file/pofogexelepixome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangladeshceramicsociety.com/uploads/editor/files/bolulerebuwaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d878eabc7---54699605484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f08c54e5a3---wibedam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=flygps+pokemon+goPDF 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_off0000db29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB29 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 8659b5d5cea21a690a511c94ed3b503d395468649c9de832c78eefc08ee127fa
font_01_sfnt_off000108f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108F8 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 9d97c0e549fe1797cde4ef96d1e9f5d11b8190cd59c088c3e7466ed7dea5b1a8
font_02_sfnt_off00012039.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12039 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1