Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cb8fdbff2f1123e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 14:01:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2569d16951cf7984cbcba007497934f5 SHA-1: 1a2bef235541075cb3f75948d144a681c4d14745 SHA-256: 0cb8fdbff2f1123e56588caffd856d61fc4c009cbd9d647c34c5f5d77630c423
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs that lead to a link farm, ultimately directing users to potentially malicious content, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic. The 'PDF_URI' heuristic specifically points to a URL that appears to be a lure for downloading a game, suggesting a phishing or social engineering tactic. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and heuristics strongly indicate a phishing attempt via a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+truck+simulator+2+android PDF link annotation
    • https://doanandieuduong295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/vojerunetaruruzesodivako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundai-dongdo.vn/images/files/lowezepatokotevetakumil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nodka.eu/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pulefirunulano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciacogliate.it/userfiles/files/77972357078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yyfxsw.com/upload/files/gisewusupunujig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202109140505356381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dientrotiendathc.com/media/ftp/file/85735698311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektor-bezpeki.com/userfiles/files/37191689184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilatheshow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16880701325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://griby.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44971855815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzoltosagmihald.hu/userfiles/file/89602755057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vitanov.rs/files/bijuwegozileterog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konberdbio.com/upload/files/rijexesifozumibukodalorab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161406906e0a39---javewopijolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seo-methodes.com/userfiles/file/lunibutonepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-elektro.eu/archiv/file/wikavub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phongkhamtamthan.net/uploadeditor/files/dejuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mavelikaradiocese.org/rapha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73569121817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://redac.ch/upload/vururuvadodaxirufafis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614138a59342f---82103235531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chochosanencino.com/uploads/files/56602285625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobile-translator.eu/app/webroot/media/files/suselafunizegupivemowuzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quantri.thaisonpalacehotel.com/upload/files/susejuramogazutatalorer.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_off0000ca8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA8F 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 7ef61bd69e48236a54e30e9e12eddcba25af5de16e2b68d228470adfbbc82628
font_01_sfnt_off0000e38b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE38B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB9D 16836 bytes
SHA-256: 2f6e1c99188d403ede6e68dc01901f66773794afbbefbd540d328b823488accc