Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06a8272dbfc33757…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 08:46:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 79d68ddde58f5b1d252b97f5a5945e57 SHA-1: 84dc880085b136a356a427867a54d8889e7a71bc SHA-256: 06a8272dbfc337575bd0d0c593be0bff48d14c709ab6db5ad6b30d92f9b9bd12
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to various domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags the document's structure as a link farm on disposable hosting, reinforcing the phishing or malware distribution attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs is the primary indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=suzuki+violin+book+3+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://christmaslandint.com/userfiles/12029102443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/ziduziban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylivediamondinventory.com/uploads/files/fopakubujorupukukide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interroadholland.nl/userfiles/file/94852118629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelbo.com/uploads/admins/u0/files/20210905095841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133679d0891a---15125659231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anninhsieuthi.online/upload/files/ratixasamatoxadolawexubox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misr-consult.com/userfiles/file/18500567130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/xowoxeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacjaartfreeart.pl/userfiles/file/pugifuzesurabebafuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24f56957f489c57513c647b291f27301/40820194429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebovsem.ru/app/webroot/files/files/vitipur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kitpaisal.com/mypicture/file/bufibezoturitefuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazab.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kupinusazelimuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenobiacultura.it/userfiles/file///55534971682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuqiaohome.com/uploads/files/202109100222239046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pantonerestauri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93151774984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newbiesites.com/userfiles/file/sajisenabajaxalegijumufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbeeldt.nl/userfiles/file/34603561405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaaikdebj9ccf1ayja1b5a3q.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guboramovukemurozokaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfinshaat.az/userfiles/file/55268000500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziguratex.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/80867034954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dispensapertutti.com/userfiles/files/sovuzudevidosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021091108471073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salonrewards.ca/images/file/bufumigowuxezegaworoxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prcomponents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wisibalegagasosivesoki.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_off0000dc5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC5E 19508 bytes
SHA-256: e4d5afd608b58513fd621d65f0d58367deb966333507e75aee7675aa57668618
font_01_sfnt_off00010ef7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001270e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1270E 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 9f6016afafa185a2ae4f516ac2dd5bec982437a02f489e23a87400c9a4d10cc4