Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffd0642ce2448402…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 06:49:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 381445ae5db88b6a36e5ab79b3aad345 SHA-1: 824cbe514c906a13bf6634ff8b28058a0ca46982 SHA-256: ffd0642ce2448402346b2b45c97104e903270a37d926750008b74802a9c06a76
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to potentially disposable hosting. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a link farm strategy, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or exploits vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://khangvietdn.com/uploads/file/lovidudoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://haisanquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/37948727983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romento.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/25344822135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/40018265838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/47289898215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9daf2ff5ffeed8d6e6fd1957f77d2a8c/25976976107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rent-1.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zemitifesafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polymadeniyaglar.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/90771238959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/50369059344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicabg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/35452120741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/76080656644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariasangiacomo.it/userfiles/files/11755518474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nilesk.com/userfiles/file/36013010571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesciencenetwork.org/uploads/files/92429219923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranjoysarkar.in/FCKeditor/file/xosukorozifeponumaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210921_3EEFF33E5674559C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vljainandco.com/userfiles/files/58510137664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161401e08f3240---pijugamono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--q20b13r9leepaeb.net/upload/file/202109071423003544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gold-carsales.com/js/upload/files/sajokodudukuzipurabizopox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flairpens.ru/uploads/files/96348220424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldaserwis.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nozepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yoimart.com/upload/file/20210902142433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+world%27s+largest+country+by+areaPDF 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_off0000b140.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB140 16220 bytes
SHA-256: 4f93cfb1fe33d77cec227ccc2f7e470c276b45c23fb4be3d4dd942d57300a064
font_01_sfnt_off0000da65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f27c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF27C 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 51892b5b5dce152879fada978f18ae1e76e6dec02cb64f851584807b33a60664