Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb2520173109443d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 14:46:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3e488cd7affb4a5891bbbb4630401575 SHA-1: 8cfe3b27c5efcf6ddab219fd782089ae8a7bb00c SHA-256: fb2520173109443d9ab55fa82b989941700464005dbd00377d0e3404c4d4441b
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, indicating an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests a link farm designed to obscure malicious intent, and ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the download or execution of a secondary payload.

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sales+strategy+framework+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://servis-hradec.cz/files/file/vuwegumiletolirigalafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insightonafrica.in/userfiles/file/redemudojowafigidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.palmettoexpresslanes.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vikesepisekemopegozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behbehaniprojects.com/uploads/files/tikadewuvak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrzion.com/data/userfiles/files/tofovamowodujubur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimustelecoms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93166239439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turasmobilya.com/img/editor/image/file/30491839640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/konigawubipeloribasitemor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karinameal.com/imgdish/files/84089016819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moyaexpresss.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/simevabuniwurosude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161402abbc6ccd---nudaxirofugufomujimoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7069213159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heydarbaba.org/resimler/files/wugasojeluvekiwesem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-coeppicus.ch/upload/file/rurewuvifakuvobepekiboze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenhuffbuilders.com/userfiles/file/80523314234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holycrosshealthcare.com/userfiles/files/vegorevirez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40785766525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80605664264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xexegerajevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/50621953395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/34265652571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insolite.lu/img/userfiles/files/naletedifuluvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbnjl.com/userfiles/files/zaravunigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/wupapegiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanalizace-ul.cz/userfiles/file/lefij.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_off0000e642.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE642 17860 bytes
SHA-256: 11e4cb6cb2f9e5eb43fac5cd3d53dec65a2ca372dd09ac66e17c9e673d39cb88
font_01_sfnt_off000114b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114B2 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 5fa7155e9b989baee3b2c0b1f50f2cae3c3876b32ca64f969cb32d743e42ffd8
font_02_sfnt_off00012e3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1