Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 040beb525c67814e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 20:28:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ebc204983c165722efaa419fe316f297 SHA-1: ae2359241c743f46fd1f27edfba3253087279e11 SHA-256: 040beb525c67814e236f920fb859daa32f360077046e328844e7b696f6b9782a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm with numerous external URIs pointing to potentially disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://avukat.dnsaktif.net/upload/files/xamavure.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zniczekowalczyk.com/user_images/file/17232703013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwhouse.ru/uploads/file/95550393020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aerotechgroup.ru/img/outer/files/pekaxupujixifizoperude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acrclubinversores.com/files/galeria/files/jajutuxixibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b21d2b2c1---fokazigup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/boxetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamgi.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleni.cz/userfiles/file/93384345334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-028.com/userfiles/file/20210909132819_egnhch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/202193121424444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienmaythanglong.org/uploads/files/bewojezobukagivewurivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laatuwhuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/28489502923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ed7b42c05---8490305179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cottagegrad.ru/files/file/xopoxepufovorubixorarid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://openkomm.yussfone-crm.com/userfiles/file/vewabedobovorusitegejef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/38674146097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/74578619640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxfirma.com/userfiles/file/24290813897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_3D13882504A90787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datawire.gr/files/files/95594949353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitoursegypt.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiperunenax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/86747224301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/zesininoxomarugejixedidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packamate.com/userfiles/jokopuxikafonig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=au2+mobile+mod+apk+unlimited+moneyPDF 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_off0000b602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB602 16644 bytes
SHA-256: 4416a6c183d4ce854ee396598399d976b61695899a8a2f2f9dfea78d7ce4c1de
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C3 10832 bytes
SHA-256: dfe174b746b64d6a9e9c4ea8fca2fd238847d4c8be01d92eb9bcee2df088e6cf