Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 333f516561b1dc45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 13:15:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 70f427a7b00421a4fbf9118c73c171f9 SHA-1: c813b3772ace2524199dbb7e0cde402b508c97a5 SHA-256: 333f516561b1dc45ad2ad3f7432e93ec973815a8c4e3ddf09d2c9e4832936fcb
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on various domains, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic and the high number of distinct hosts suggest a malicious intent to distribute content or lure users to potentially harmful sites. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a phishing or trojan distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://thementalhealthadvocates.org/files/userfiles/file/75741691451.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://donauwell.at/userfiles/file/74888104797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gojimigusufiwivure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131dbccc953f---lopuwuwewomaxirufuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alles-vom-schreiner.de/userfiles/file/pijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flairpens.ru/uploads/file/50177691757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurastaffing.es/upload/file/48009644299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/xarelejiguraworurebopig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoradiator.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/72231685355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reazfarah.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80176566979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stock2morrow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/darewamijopagabudivew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madurastones.com/userfiles/file/dibopawavozegexugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jin-ji.com/upload/files/vanedorodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatherjansch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16893929468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edm-medical.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98319242222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/1630699698366406628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muahohangnhat.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/73215890440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutrishop.in/ci/userfiles/files/32509604229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sas.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zunabinuvakakenexolagezid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xfswchem.com/upload/files/zofegenupepiluralob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/54653091234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsqnchem.com/upload/files/80182238782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francois-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zimokitum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/87646418181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=simple+english+grammar+in+tamil+pdfPDF 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_off00010c31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C31 10900 bytes
SHA-256: d398a654c9cfbfc9263fcf9c245543478e13ae7261a62bac52580c736e850559
font_01_sfnt_off000124eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124EB 21604 bytes
SHA-256: 986e116aacd7ae153ac97614532918a28377c81fd35a07c18bbe94be34b2d68d
font_02_sfnt_off00015d4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1