Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 237abac4dae23703…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 15:56:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d58c47a135b531d4becfc755c6e25625 SHA-1: cdcbbc1d8d9b0a9d988c0aa07b409561fc27675a SHA-256: 237abac4dae23703db841acb6f12c8a779b30c5d039bc5886485214341fa48e9
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are structured as link farms, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this is not a legitimate document. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+development+in+the+cloud PDF link annotation
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/37848411397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/19714872533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trisad.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81618129923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biznesfishki.ru/files/userfiles/files/56212585770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/31045863106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecolservizinettuno.com/userfiles/files/87690005579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac141e7da3---livififurezefibirajasowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/pokegikuweboketiwebilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-42351dc5a6b3.prshots.es/uploads/userfiles/1630972353/files/84399304651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubb.cn/up_file/file/fifogifagufoxezos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronocertif.com/userfiles/file/kazikemeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghozibistore.com/luutru/files/ligaximebokepodiresib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvaracskaskola.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/38265809530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/tunemakodikegog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gimenezricarte-deltabogados.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25517614618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockeit.com/userfiles/file/6948394193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolninskayahotel.com/userfiles/file/gevewomazulasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinaxaraes.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96804496420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailygameresult.com/editor/UserFiles2/files/wezedututaxibumori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133382eb15fa---tivubew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamwith.gni.kr/ckupload/files/34136305953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaintik.org/files/galeria/files/79672927150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/vikaposejafodefodug.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_off0000dcff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCFF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f516.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF516 10596 bytes
SHA-256: fda3c17939c5131202e45f45cfd65b2d901ed38db5434a94c757d5e08928b818
font_02_sfnt_off00010d0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D0B 17400 bytes
SHA-256: 6eb7ea86fb03d46c3ec4c63b17759018d1bf29416e04b8be49eb42d34bf350ac