Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a77c006e3353f66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:49:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2db3b51e1ce065c051adf1ee6271f2e1 SHA-1: d40cb891c10c8c19852f73e7c29b510a3e34f428 SHA-256: 2a77c006e3353f666e6ffde668e93e6d291d8cc08d616ff4e057be596fa02c63
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with a significant portion pointing to link farms on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/buroresewanapemedaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/57843635726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacict.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doleforoweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52547302078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/kuzanumivekusinito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uchid.com/uploads/file/99205670824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swissies.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kobinunesigutata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proallprint.com/userfiles/files/gevetakoxavele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiw.gbpopatowiec.pl/img/upload/files/dowuvaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wspaperbag.com/userfiles/file/rugajome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramhuonghanoi.vn/upload/files/zuxunenisogadifog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-sta.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_3A558ECC28F58DFC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predia.cz/userfiles/file/xovuxitawebubajinogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldwidestationeryholdings.com/files/file/zigodegepunagogusulirura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termofriz.rs/files/puvawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recrute.fr/files/files/2735278228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xapiwesaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ac7c903c6---55781146575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karlholmbygg.se/UserFiles/files/20605370018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/xonodenatoxidulumebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131574b40066---pezunoxumadujalipafeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talentfuturesservices.com/sharpinstitute/images/files/88913404427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrs-edu.com/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/wavoloxasukatenosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wietsevoermans.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27523340770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biondiairsystem.it/userfiles/files/34948690733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+delete+cookies+androidPDF 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_off0000dd60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD60 17820 bytes
SHA-256: c001186953ab00a38b68fc440e835e8dd8a95e48a64f2033acffe762250f6963
font_01_sfnt_off00010b05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001231c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1231C 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 8fc0566c17735e7d85e7cb928cbe4c0d9d4437df60790d32e2f1f81dc8aacb1d