Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a830bf1d6a02727…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 21:59:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 84757c36597315b64ed21cb0fd0423d6 SHA-1: a37adb5a7a33af497d09b258ebbc7d473de87223 SHA-256: 2a830bf1d6a02727f4948c90b1ce4731888f5a5f043ccf841e5a13f4da1fcdcd
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file 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 domains that appear to be part of a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior, suggesting the document's primary purpose is 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+share+fake+live+location+on+whatsapp+android PDF link annotation
    • http://arebiatours.com/uploads/files/39297763267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/xogitiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakotech.at/uploads/ckeditor/files/73004055943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alansglobalservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66923727824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalcoopadvisors.com/userfiles/files/tufamexopuvoluti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.privathospitaletkollund.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/377722810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/83273728306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nonbodepsg.com/uploads/files/rujalakokov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72684576422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gro-felix.si/uploads/jovopuxelipuzulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruta.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waxizasixiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espritgt.com/userfiles/file/11272419632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonsaokhue.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/nugeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waxiangyuan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-18/20210918081606646953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130850f9e392---mapamolotevotok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sooam.com/files/fckeditor/file/13021618106149f41d1a2c4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/56219486806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdauvietnam.vn/upload/files/59064602197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gutachterbewertung.de/userfiles/file/ribakonukaledovusizeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonhieutrung.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xomovapimonivipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/nofisobofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/bumufesiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragoniresorts.com/userfiles/pudulowewinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144cf70b3b6c---6319185664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ltmetal.com/userfiles/files/wulilabodafisegurabeloni.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_off0000dc6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC6D 17020 bytes
SHA-256: 83d6752e5d59f272cfbdc1d26a03a8c465de83162822498091e7ad8c639241f6
font_01_sfnt_off00010838.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10838 10952 bytes
SHA-256: f647c54d9dcb2acdaa225d608242e49b57f1a019f77b10380d64d0e7c2d1d764
font_02_sfnt_off00012190.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12190 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1