Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa4c8669d9429d15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 05:25:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 40bbdea966fe78b9087da88f9fe46acc SHA-1: 8b6fcbdd889494df526e219abac9c42ba3a5a845 SHA-256: fa4c8669d9429d159c2482211564895d32429bf996211923d0ec0794b22d8454
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high number of external URLs, coupled with a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly indicates a malicious intent. The PDF likely uses its JavaScript to redirect users to one of the numerous listed URLs, which are probably part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with a high probability of being malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nba+live+2005+cheats PDF link annotation
    • http://studiocalderini.it/userfiles/files/21337354450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/sotiliniruwosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0225674989.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vufomixafisabumame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niengrangchuyensau.com/upload/contentFile/file/76286609479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/sibewodetowivezawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertcomptablecourreges.fr/michel_courreges/userfiles/file/36179744868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manhtreminhduc.com/webroot/img/files/12892212452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beleznayauto.hu/galeria/pictures/jumipubawaluxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/buwunikoninujotagonesoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turningpointdigital.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88450536417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.azurwelcomeservices.com/userfiles/file/mubefoxotuzixemibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/23745547482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/63051132899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cottagegrad.ru/files/file/fumelerebaked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021091411553882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stilna-ya.com/_userfiles/file/92548605440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dcbestwings.com/uploads/files/xexoxepotopirexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotspot-usa.com/js/upload/files/figarekikobaxowukijoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertbah.si/files/file/jakogumafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apex-architect.ru/images/file/38644057213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/xijuregud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscsaoner.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zidumawuxetadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f93e6ddf00---95518172553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa953ed88b0d297e286b3f80b8b3561a/wulumomibebokul.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_off0000cdc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5DB 18360 bytes
SHA-256: 993fc2fb37eea6ffaa1902558cec78c13bf87e3f3c6d8777052af2a6333d60aa
font_02_sfnt_off00011629.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11629 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 90847c5d97acc5c9d39e337e8c443a04399d0402ffcc0cdf112913aa9be1c11b