Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08d0166eed810bcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:09:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d93e0d973b5c748db814b4fde20eadeb SHA-1: 5e1577d070f1e72717cc27ce7575fd78432b6f14 SHA-256: 08d0166eed810bcde2114287a8a4b8cedb98e7614680baddc0384321108ef486
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous distinct hosts, which is a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of many embedded URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://mobilaide.com/upload/editor/file/62301353896.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://foundlight.ca/home/foun6192/public_html/files/custom_files/file/salodebafarig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duet-czluchow.pl/userfiles/file/57984919626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.globalnautique.nl/upload/files/zubifido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch.hu/userfiles/files/89838022652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukaiart.com/userfiles/files/rovotiboxedolamoruxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-motyle.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/vijedimefeguzafelixaruza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitvaartverzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/xezaxoxonupajupitupazaxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bdfdc0dad2---31069565306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/zepedikumofobezozanonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613386117e207---7641986155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zukidavadep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.org/contents/files/fijefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpusbg.com/files/fck/file/78201633182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/budekiwuxofoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/wegetepofaref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunkamalzemecilik.com/userfiles/file/denunutuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fgcrubochi.com.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nidepixelapopumiviwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents/files/82528376005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livresdarts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fenunenosibopesamasuxatox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritran.vn/uploads/news_file/68516665245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://votava2.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80834287866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalinmobiliario24.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/3757447270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krossi.ru/images/content/files/nexodatuwigamonerulela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remini.hu/userfiles/file/butirijegoxovevoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nujhimachal.in/img/uploads/files/nezejeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=mov+to+mp4+converter+downloadPDF 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_off0000e3cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3CB 17704 bytes
SHA-256: d417f4fc608ddd56ae27f3e00889b3ad5bcb01c93978eb24b10a192ce4278373
font_01_sfnt_off000111fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A14 10636 bytes
SHA-256: b50b353023c624463f72067b43d365c50dfe28e27e595e762cf2e788f3af1b29