Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 184256540c674d58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 02:43:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e423956b5bbaf8c8cc22678479e7c207 SHA-1: eacc90b71a0bf67e45b500ee124b2161349a28c3 SHA-256: 184256540c674d5857ab107b1aaba2d380fd043d6738f5e99f9b2969e15cf72b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with a critical detection score. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on various domains. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a high volume of links on disposable hosting, suggesting a tactic to manipulate search engine results or distribute malware. The primary attack pattern involves tricking users into opening a malicious PDF which then redirects them to a network of potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://longruiglass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210914_141510.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fairbank-ia.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vekipojijawexupij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinojjacob.com/userfiles/file/19343560462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarangroup2.com/contents/files/59199164007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecreator.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gonep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motocams.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41123428844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ags-car.60km.com/upload/files/92043202823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortwashington.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/5850438160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/60909050516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adesso-moosburg.de/images/file/jilulidagilaxemupivaxovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solee.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95809692802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stilistspb.online/public/files/uploads/files/26450043808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovistar-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55306293370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlhk.ru/upload_picture/file/56613273341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://addon-colsman.somantec.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fobudeladebomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d8f8f94237---sexidejoferilave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramen.com/uploads/files/dovafamiponoxajixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents/files/66859734176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/zaxasetiwekojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/22282236913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7886674232b84520c2d55130b5ef711d/99291292208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80adib9cjd8a5e.xn--p1ai/i/upload/files/fonoruwobedepivozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sampoernastrategic.com/uploads/image/files/texofuweniwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/ravixej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyogytornasziget.hu/uploads/files/wajilosejixuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=inshot+video+editor+pro+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000e06b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06B 22472 bytes
SHA-256: eba97fdffd4d4038300ecc85b6401e9e0fe9ddeaa3b5c0ce9724628ee047d5b8
font_01_sfnt_off00011aee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013305.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13305 10720 bytes
SHA-256: e27bb6b6220f8727697dfbd507b8374a6c1454c4513fbf374de4cfafd00d1f40