Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a8d1fbcb33533f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 23:42:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c6229beec43a01eefa6cca9023cfaab0 SHA-1: 6315939c1069b921b980e3df4344ff50da80ebbe SHA-256: 0a8d1fbcb33533f75f69ad40d88a21a31a043dab6b3cb086f335a4de1ba5b4cf
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vegas+crime+apk+hack PDF link annotation
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/748f785830d7b11db96254159b6b9f49/pavobalamijivagupubitep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fgosvo.ru/files/files/nivatazob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goozzl.com/userfiles/files/dabefawaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/67919479388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agedwedfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/foneborexaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/21443294901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macro-e.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/33103710910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jj-metals.com/userfiles/file/2021090617163573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021091411565373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c86297330---zovikube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcpremium.com/userfiles/files/donubidusarilikinadusizas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kefasep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/roguxevaboziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyermo.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/68852392951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/6053651791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipgene.com/image/files/20210906_041612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/21594974640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurodegranizo.ar/noticias/fckeditor/file/zovadixipomavitalexixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/8096561625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/jovewixenirugiwuzovonave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/17197131476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/36807267526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/regudopasusotudoset.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_off0000e28e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE28E 18556 bytes
SHA-256: 6fe8b6b885dbf847806c63b33529acdf14d9bfe21913b18166a0a0248586a507
font_01_sfnt_off000112de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012af5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF5 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 9cf39e5976f6bb2da47963a60c4fb9d2bb86ede85fb22fc6eceb7a89f6ff191e