Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ff22dcacbb8975d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:33:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 08cd208842b1b31e3893972687ea8465 SHA-1: cf0f5a823457e47aa9c9b2ed5138fe447a2d01c4 SHA-256: 2ff22dcacbb8975d52c78583ebeb3d3ce2de92dfce506302d967c255745107c9
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several heuristics flagging it as a link farm on disposable hosting and containing algorithmically-generated URLs. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links suggests the PDF is intended to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pathfinder+tyrant%27s+grasp+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://crimesla.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nulamogifeserab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c524df19a---jazujobijedogeponipube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celesteandtorsten.wedding/images/file/xepifawakiporir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariosanfrancesco.com/userfiles/files/58330847375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuansheng.com/userfiles/file/fimutetadovevolaxawuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://360global.ca/userfiles/file/21079235159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyuangang.com/UserFiles/file///mikazapake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/613988de3f79c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/63786465819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/narifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210907_230221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luiginoiobbi.com/userfiles/file/fedugaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rougezenekar.hu/files/file/9007183793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzafjc.com/uploadfile/files/54153889636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veoguidecostarica.com/ci/userfiles/files/wedizazewutigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanvexe.vn/webroot/img/files/jorumijuporox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enovosti.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60144162698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioturina.com/userfiles/files/vunobewawape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ltmetal.com/userfiles/files/80341126606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugang360.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-19/20210919025435973086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://identik.hu/editor_up/31964157648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roberlo.cz/www/files/file/92137682095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vangphutai.com/images/uploads/files/21551397426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nut-shell.net/upload/files/rufezezunugitavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/928a5cfef0d1b9072ef59c57beac1e97/lulabubefuvabubotibaz.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_off0000de57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE57 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 7e1dd166f3abcf07d091bda729d1a1fb0d2e520a070b1fe5f679cf2192cb279c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6DA 17832 bytes
SHA-256: 16ae45e955a1980e2d10139261e23a5b296cd200303453136fd22a57adced72a
font_02_sfnt_off00012553.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12553 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1