Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d8793ba7042bcc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-10-01 19:18:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: d78f5793b8a9ca30259b9c6498e54669 SHA-1: f5455ae5c2e8f9922ea6386ac3242293568bd135 SHA-256: 1d8793ba7042bcc8575017e91c576dd3b7c031b1f140458e6469403641646d78
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of link farms on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hack+za+clash+royale PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piwaliwuvoruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockpapersun.com/upload_mce_image/file/pevosesope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idroilektriki.gr/files/file/jolorivumadodimagafogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alteanetworks.fr/img/file/fuxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibliotekaludwin.pl/img/upload/files/17261307582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanamachine.com/imgUpload/files/gudalelemumot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/duvedinokosegiraxafiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4964679586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bokosakexeguzugid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegneriarossi.it/userfiles/files/13921390196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cdab370b5c---91652462995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppntassone.it/dati/upload/file/53386379749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac1882e451---70651473817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iciparis.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6236560168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noelex22.org/userfiles/file/6680424000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobosugyvedkecskemet.hu/userfiles/file/rijezogoziwujevolisetij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biaikatolikus.hu/files/file/67040069440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dae-young.kr/upload/fckeditor/file/sarekezafofazaputilapesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasz-pap.hu/UserFiles/file/49844495979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/jidem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldksolar-officialliquidation.com/userfiles/files/70890972208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-ostrava.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6474238898.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_off0000b0fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC910 16612 bytes
SHA-256: 5c128225794b2f46b3f7d0afe73994de824e48d7a6e5aeb89e84a13f9dc23667
font_02_sfnt_off0000f306.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF306 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 397759940b59a31c3514d66fcde1be0fbdf7be91ea44d3621b7ef39c04238bc7