Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f2a8f70a1cba307…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-10-02 21:17:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 76e6ec7a8c35ce5aafce475b959d4412 SHA-1: d53b15cee4506666a2a00177118782ac828eafbf SHA-256: 0f2a8f70a1cba307a42a8fa6e235e92e2e28ff79f1c86da96e76c0f8003c320c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the PDF is designed to host many links on potentially untrustworthy sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=solution+of+icse+chemistry+class+9 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.casestilistas.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62947437693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozelskadm.ru/files/uploads/files/kufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tftb8ieps9tue13l1hkkp9gp65/85188349768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/98239321104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/fabazovokofizujowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/xitiwalifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuaphucluong.com/uploads/image/files/84757005380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halanmilk.com/upload/files/20392366388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkouty.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tejevamusipudemisuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-muehlacker.de/data/tcmuehlacker/userfiles/file/dabuwovemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandishoverseas.com/UserFiles/File/58939572118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88346104119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luckysurface.itweald.com/uploads/files/613c2a0d1fcf5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qbuy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/mogataferopewasuzuleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/43513098158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saeronbio.com/userData/board/file/35434565441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210928120307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simsvizag.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file///30345749617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcbcharpentebois.com/ressource/site-image/files/kuzezadedinapifelepukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lusuvaxebibasepujubenokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associazionemillesogni.it/userfiles/files/sozesefajegunujuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superbarter.sk/media/file/42773065080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badaranquehablar.com/userfiles/files/7944442986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/boposabowamafugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/padidedatipewubanelamep.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_off0000bf13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d725.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD725 19696 bytes
SHA-256: 45e2958e291153fc20cdca1d88c614cd85b01f27d504cf6afecb0e4657695e0a
font_02_sfnt_off00010a10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A10 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 2d209cc309b70941578024feadf8c5131f88ec88971338daf62a9759280223ec