Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a548a426353db5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 04:48:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9ca421f946e9deb5af8765c8aca7f618 SHA-1: a137abaa4a887837c722f6c3522ed52dd7999b98 SHA-256: 4a548a426353db5b98aa074fa52c99778ca7fd3e495214197fd1e53e56c2d974
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as link farms. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a large number of links on low-reputation hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution by directing users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+android+app+not+on+play+store PDF link annotation
    • https://begili.com/uploads/image/files/wupuzev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanaca.com/uploads/image/files/fogiwojilitasol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://propertiesforrent.com/userfiles/file///babaverefit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertworker.paraleumarian.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/14480686886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massintech.ru/img/outer/files/5753776641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/zipijogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibra-optica.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/misikeromeritoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cribpointonline.org/cribpointonline/userimages/file/viwapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dedanskecasinoer.dk/userfiles/file/poxelofobusabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/90955126846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toroisg.com/public/images/files/marala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casms.org/atts/news-files/file/suxepazozolax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movesearchesuk.com/userfiles/file/84855861260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24x7taazasamachar.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/73977233811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/witugeladedarofesuxeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianshunqs.com/admin/upload/kowurinadime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shukokai-voves.fr/userfiles/file/metemanomikusenizuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euronuts2009.ge/files/files/migemuwazaked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e02f0d327d7ab5fbdf059ca25d92db80/7270953889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/28309818384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makinsushi.com/uploads/files/jidigofigipowax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liho.cz/UserFiles/File/87908458458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cc19a6bf7f---binuretipavosuzitobomelun.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_off0000d908.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD908 18304 bytes
SHA-256: e84dda01ad1d36dfd17e81025835c761815909953660907cb1a69d1b6e220c1b
font_01_sfnt_off00010907.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10907 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001211e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1211E 10552 bytes
SHA-256: d891dab47f7dd88b9043fc16feb4160776c63db64a2d7231a0161d31c4406f26