Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05e985fbdf20e59f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 14:28:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3a0dfba210ce4827c6e8c1c66a5ffd5b SHA-1: 45da338aaad3227cdc2ee84cfe0b37dba4a582e3 SHA-256: 05e985fbdf20e59f483b40aeeb5aa7c789022333055ea1bc3eaef419815900af
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, containing numerous links to disposable hosting, and one URL includes a 'utm_term' parameter suggesting a tracking or lure mechanism. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=astronaut+skin+fortnite+season+3+chapter+2 PDF link annotation
    • http://shceping.com/upFile/photos/2021-9/file/pokalotebidonamusipawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpkgoodframeupvc.com/userfiles/files/boxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ed9368ea65---doxefebesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santamariamikado.com/uploads/files/48798216303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralteplostroy.ru/content/file/11299446458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmsone.com/eimages/file/somone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thokhoavietnam.com/upload/files/bumubulokijizopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petala.gr/userfiles/file/banawevuvoguxatagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slhospital.com/upload/fckeditor/file/39765072230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccphucvinh.com/upload/files/kebomajufenufajajufipux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clickvay.com/upload/files/4007083228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fli.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72010251732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/jebelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318dd7b39c5---51546831899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e68momo.com/shopadmin/upload/files/rapikexaligudapojaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooobelkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fopenepexomefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inmaabiladi.com/userfiles/files/vukonatasugepezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terredellamagnagrecia.com/userfiles/files/binetopedez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://z87992961.com/upload/files/20210910155010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wufajezedavafakabex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michalpavlicek.com/uploaded/file/zunibonofakefaduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alothongtin.com/upload/FCK/file/timojixoruvopulafagov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rintrans.com/files/74350453964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strings97.hu/userfiles/file/71465315213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasikampung.info/contents/files/78509462686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceiling.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/10951028518.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_off00010fe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE5 17308 bytes
SHA-256: b8108946c3db4cc8be0b493d3c7e422bf76050e31b38a346caf0733fc2920129
font_01_sfnt_off00013c79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015490.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15490 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 8b0482693cd4fe96eb303fd57a111ca7a181f3f7dba2fb78f2c0a3fa11115808