Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44fafb62ee8995c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 05:13:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0abd24bc2cd7c20ead4535b656b2b892 SHA-1: d79f9564c88ce7bf29e231a5e761f0a1867ac649 SHA-256: 44fafb62ee8995c0ef3486dabd024dff36e94612ff67580858fe14ba93716b31
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains, indicating a link farm or redirection mechanism. Heuristics identified this as a link farm on disposable hosting, and a high ML score and ClamAV detection confirm its malicious nature. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external resources, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/bezevavifuxanesote.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushi.com/uploads/files/gavoziso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9ca74f07a---vixudiganirovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elmundodelapiscina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48199824901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swapnauraan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/junusebizuvixifixusipar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--franzsischebulldoggen-lec.eu/userfiles/file/pulepiguzabigesotuweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/voranifawowara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corporatiegids.nl/uploads/files/mipetoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://llux.vn/uploads/files/5803124502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/musowipevuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/41009939794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolt-go77.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xodape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36356969310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-tos.com/userData/board/file/61503883619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/ginujokikumosojuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papierplus.pl/userfiles/file/sazewinisiposewejipar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bckbytow.naszbip.pl/img/upload/files/70448269456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e80ba4cdb4---12016696912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/keragajojebinatobasovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukupahit.com/contents/files/30305918831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huanghels.com/filespath/files/20210911185054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zoluji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/lotofutedipufoxepagudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokumsuzgec.com/userfiles/files/83395238322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=haircut+salon+near+me+open+nowPDF 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_off0000bec5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEC5 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 9c4e4166ee9304d346431fc1335c43cf6e073f1c2b3eec508151385e28e4af07
font_01_sfnt_off0000d762.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD762 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF74 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 193abbdcf4ae42e668b6473dfeb70af4d419980e56cd7077accc281a21666d1a