Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b6b3235212a1f87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 12:04:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6ae266cc985f3f9c9f10e631f0a5089e SHA-1: d21d68555a0011568a1f766c32368ab1da7c91d5 SHA-256: 4b6b3235212a1f87fb2640ce60bde632048e932547e5fa7456a5ba0c7ca9a3bf
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, many of which appear to be part of a link farm on disposable hosting, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attack pattern designed to trick users into visiting malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=research+methodology+methods+and+techniques+4th+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://easy-sleep24.de/shop/images/editorfiles/file/67750832845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59025010267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/49989364615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokosohk.com/files/fckfiles/file/65836806675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecompletecontact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3002910913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmtechsolution.com/userfiles/dawitemazodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poongdung.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_49FD8974721FEC88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/6276739375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://net-work.cz/data/file/miwemepudediwisetaruzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinoscaform.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109120812246872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranch.pl/files/file/47566700191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/46891843875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaxabc.com/userfiles/file/20210903103644_1012466355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/ruzigabusevugubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3lcc79lhjjoppbag6mpnkfo0b/64364005404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pn-tech.net/userData/board/file/30345415038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polandpools.com/contents/files/saxovizigobinegiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141164c17f91---18710457862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neza.cz/UserFiles/File/pozamitesavaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosme.org/uploadfile/files/sidoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manusingh.org/scgtest/eec-new/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wugigugovabamesidoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crossfit28.com.s125853.gridserver.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/mokanodosonikirexomes.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_off0000e0b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C2 18832 bytes
SHA-256: d1c4cc825da043b9750ccf53ae1c3ce4836849cd307ce18ca3326c20517beefa
font_02_sfnt_off00012997.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12997 11548 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2b43886db87beec6df79192c51ea6fab6f69142fe3fa0fccb2f82b18389e84