Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a71d9ca7408c0af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 18:52:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8bc4ad69eb0d16836e6c885916105dcf SHA-1: e3d2b61fbc0657a69a0e8277f00ba91486e85381 SHA-256: 3a71d9ca7408c0afe395a3302ee50555243ffd9a2ac144b9edb922da390924b3
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the final destination by using multiple disposable hosting domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thor+ragnarok+tamil+dubbed+movie+download PDF link annotation
    • http://gensugroup.com/upload/files/fexezuzofipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worshipedia.net/sites/default/files/file/46365752014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dawnraytech.985.tw/data/file/userfiles/files/mowuvixutomolegasozepomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurenhanger.nl/userfiles/file/13704593760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamant-x.sk/UserFiles/file/79427358742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yankey.com.tw/demo/public/editor/ckfinder/upload/user_upload/files/89889218340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydchem.cn/filespath/files/20210909065444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anninh247.info/upload/files/41890698724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfaspot.com/resimler/files/690716445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efa53d30d2ce8ac923df5d2418ac5978/92991744932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144b5e2ae4ac---dubonarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrs-edu.com/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/4490722026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skpizzasubs.com/uploads/files/xesasevepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/41023460788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/lodejelulelejadifigap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restokrat.info/userfiles/file/logugizozibib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rpv-drachten.nl/files/file/50713440432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lebedosapartotel.com/data/yukle/files/51634980267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/27218262991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.vn/images/uploads/files/liwufonixumisilap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubytovna-krumlov.cz/userfiles/file/19022369386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littleedupark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85662669653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ist-lb1.istanajp.com/contents/files/8790385862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsonplastic.com/uploads/userfiles/file/52111354321.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_off0000eaee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAEE 17864 bytes
SHA-256: 3b546bca341fe0b776a938694b14c01b02dd0ed491dd3e3e42593d436fc0942e
font_01_sfnt_off0001196f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1196F 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 739eb697ad64561e8e0d964c0c82be18553257e0eb28992da7eb438d15a62db3
font_02_sfnt_off00013284.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13284 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1