Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ebea7fb1e880ee8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-25 16:55:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: a80cf33e8dccd3df4787ffe5bd3d5cc8 SHA-1: 8eb044b4e9dd9f5973a834a459d8b8b3087c88b8 SHA-256: 3ebea7fb1e880ee824da4a4a6e67afc9e71f55f8b5e6d2c82a828d0cf28125f3
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm or redirection service. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically highlights the nature of these links, indicating a tactic to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=picsart+pro+download PDF link annotation
    • https://aayams.com/userfiles/file/kosenilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://un7un9b3rl1pa7-99.com/contents/files/64672990847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75360471058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://affordableadobe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18853584793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kinujudusutivesig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restauraceeverest.cz/userfiles/file/73778410086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mercuresamuichaweng.com/admin/file/sekasikaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinaweb.com/upload/file/72602934745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://train-in-japan.com/images/blog/file/vezuzimakekus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preiss.at/upload_files/files/87679937618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikeid.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xejutodin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/jejemuguzamet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenflameenergy.com/userfiles/file/noruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocatoandreabruschi.it/userfiles/files/gudojimijasalof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161486a21b05d5---komefadezujebab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/lafibivenanivaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f101lmm6mreijb3il2pss07n76/11210222412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safaraval.com/basefile/safaravalcom/files/tositepigosijupimamosoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-plovdiv.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60931093489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiotovn.com/Images_upload/files/lexinovigawilobafelepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steffis-strassladen.de/userfiles/file/navubovetojiniwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfins-thailand.org/uploads/file/nepekarajedisumerozagogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artikos.pl/userfiles/file/95256963958.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_off0000b41f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB41F 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 2ceea16bf927234b07032f8f37e38ca49ff8d028c2dac214f1e23870aa7ce36b
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC03 17416 bytes
SHA-256: 9d1714a8001c0f3070906c62ec80e4e19ec67a40b65139d3bdeddf2160bf0b7f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f838.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF838 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1