Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12e53088b97866b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-26 12:57:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 6ba5770c241a3930eab4f3b640d560d2 SHA-1: a84f2263bd55289a5903652ef8e47646098e65ac SHA-256: 12e53088b97866b52f01521ec371e330af9a6ca871b66b54d6fe96c72d21eaf7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to a link farm, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to potentially harmful content or further malware downloads. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging a malicious PDF as an attachment in a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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 http://pomelieagency.com/userfiles/files/tudoxewirisosenakipiti.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://035620126.tw/upload/greenkitchen/files/wiligisazajepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteurluc.com/userfiles/file/51417826311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/wizevokulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akwarella.pl/user_uploads/file/puvoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nrgmedia.hu/files/file/newenupan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/reribogaxuwome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomuraca.eu/userfiles/files/joruzosetidalafuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.com/images/file/14727800345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/57299474293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spec-so.ru/sites/default/files/file/93807508150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-ultratech.com/files/pufimegupaxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamwith.gni.kr/ckupload/files/67680550451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chafewyuok.handysociality.com/upload/files/36304410293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzysztofmalec.pl/gfx/fck/file/bunelamipiriki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkingpeople.info/userfiles/file/74177838721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614904a80153e---94686517767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/ckfinder/files/files/wiwaretoderatufugafodojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fumugizuzeneraxojoxofivox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/28287645613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/96723000849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruitssupplier.com/app/webroot/img/files/pisivalowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/48523505762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/xuvipuranematez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fd28ccf77c---tunesefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=fs+19+mod+apk+free+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_off0000affd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFFD 15396 bytes
SHA-256: 27b3c396c2e9bc69b120a9a74e57b1962da70043fb27a35716c8c4010a0ab23d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE4 10844 bytes
SHA-256: a83a134c4b16ca1723a15e33538cc58f05b6766849c874d6838ac025dc039cd1