Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3464430e4b1c9d2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.8 KB Created: 2021-09-28 05:27:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 0ee0503c8385e1691a0a8f3bba6b997a SHA-1: a0b405600abe46c136862b2dc8724b5e12c16a7e SHA-256: 3464430e4b1c9d2a9e5404491f688bf6d933ab7532be050b80de2cfa9be3a878
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with a primary focus on directing users to `https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=waterdeep+dragon+heist+pdf+download`. The heuristic `PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM` indicates the PDF is part of a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. ClamAV detection as `Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0` further confirms its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URIs and link farm behavior strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8257

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=waterdeep+dragon+heist+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.77ice.com/upload/files/lobirumezixewalurilixiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fukaofoods.tw/uploads/files/202109040944377616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asliev.coco1490.com/upload/file_folder/file/91186802760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giprozdraw.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xegigorararef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chezgregoire.fr/userfiles/xuxutidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/xijekoguwovipoxipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/pelumuwadesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/30093676329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarpaket.ru/userfiles/file/67161479445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcm-invoice.vn/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/gikenosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reitinguok.lt/userfiles/file/nujukupevasaluxusagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161420c1ada10f---vixezorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90474002892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relans-nn.ru/images/docs/file/29513305155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rm-centr.ru/uploads/file/zupejexarekoxezer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/torusulanomewerabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incomsistema.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12398300895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phupmirpol.pl/userfiles/file/sanuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/96215921877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/43129248348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/rojitikobibenaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3DD 16420 bytes
SHA-256: 6a28e878f5b208644ca2d327d4a7eb04505a0dd19da000630f505553bc0ab115