Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b1d58c35a02d9d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-10-08 14:50:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c0abccabfae974d56886d4e780c89ba1 SHA-1: 8ae4770bccee34157b9710e6755b1e478912c1a3 SHA-256: 1b1d58c35a02d9d9d611acc61d2b6a7d6b7eda8d5f41000073d689fde2c8cac4
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which are associated with link farms and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=horse+racing+place+terms PDF link annotation
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjnasio1s30q5pcker8jrg329n/sojigufixirajawulafir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/21199399274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/13031341903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksuskalology.com/images/file/95696864225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hindustanadvancedsolution.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/dumazukolitezizoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daliangluyinpeng.com/userfiles/file/66029922265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/wujadizavudatagegifena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuchina.org/userfiles/file/goredutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istihdamhaberleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/bugozafamokogufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getrade.net/uploadfiles/file/73625327415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20111990552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acevina.com/webroot/img/files/82076615810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popmetre.com/news/files/32140811598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livermore.com/wysiwygfiles/file/76419642252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/sokoxazevufitine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giridhareye.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86365676065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rimifobel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magnumattachments.com/ckfinder/userfiles/Files/13001798734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desense.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/zofako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitoursegypt.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiperunenax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b10260e952---xajezalogalizelolobikadav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooobelkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/belamazanakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents/files/wapilavokeginelepunumereg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onmamtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210922_DB8A66C14BF57FB8.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_off0000b98b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB98B 15496 bytes
SHA-256: 956b6115b19a30e1c873d58bc965eb8f271b796349e23cac3b128d4f40b105c2
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0D4 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 38321694a87b9f1aceb0e1c7c3e3d6297efac76491df1066a8ea18b801b1f137
font_02_sfnt_off0000f95f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF95F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1