Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 297fa0081f9a7b13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 02:59:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d2167a9a87e9289c639d83c2d284c860 SHA-1: dadaaa6dfa07bba02bf003c71314e5fdda1f3166 SHA-256: 297fa0081f9a7b133bbdbed42eab298ad960246d13728b2082783f3341f29cf0
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm on disposable hosting. The embedded URLs and the PDF's structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF format itself can execute JavaScript, contributing to the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+stop+unwanted+app+installation+in+android PDF link annotation
    • http://timebymtm.com/upload/files/lidalolabosokowaduveded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapalinakliyat.net/file/82343016114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pipufegudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soroptimist.be/oldsite/intranet/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/resujaxizavedeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macauroommate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tobajavawivuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xnkvinatimex.com/uploads/files/72293403344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orem.mn/uploads/files/lidelirakenewezisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://climtech.com/files/files/mapebuvorasolokipin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmbbq.com/uploads/files/gorebigejepazutusasonarig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhosnorte.com/images/files/rujolowuregojakugoxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/236481ef790e795cab4f6a7951eec86c/baligaxukogifawijel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marienoellebermond.com/img/uploaded/file/49062682611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseacarpet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/54505479590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betsin.org/userfiles/files/kumiloxokogevoverobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/fisawotosilutozamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlabiura.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kasavunipuwufoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyozenemeryville.com/uploads/files/sovojupifajamoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c931712bc---47549480513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dintek.eu/uploads/file/venituxetaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecosdaliberdade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18746666800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7970301855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/fetotafenet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zilalcooling.com/other_files/File/sepumixofibikaxuvogudaro.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_off0000d9a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9A5 10564 bytes
SHA-256: f92b060571e03e191b1ecc82c9d46cab01504369ca51c2b35ca255ae3276d336
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000109ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109EE 19320 bytes
SHA-256: a19eabe12327df9a9dbfd99befb483a771dc72829d2c3480055bdea42ec4982c