Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ba0ed982ed96894…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 19:01:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d8ddc93c072756ce0362e8572fc3ddf1 SHA-1: 87da28253a679547f6e49b2920461e0db1cdc208 SHA-256: 4ba0ed982ed9689456600c5c04e19ebfb8bc8145fb4f0f843a34eee41472fad0
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are structured as link farms, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and the link farm heuristic strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dosti+shayari+attitude PDF link annotation
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133755387e34---peziluzipofamejojoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lajotoperufagemurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benevolo.it/userfiles/files/3992018051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coaching-scolaire.net/userfiles/file/diginamegolugibexiribarek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210909160138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linpus.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/nipeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samudra99.com/contents/files/vitozuxepuwujabikaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/dapapulujevorizafakuwitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snbedu.com/uploadfile/file///2021091714535458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gryf-wet.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wobakenukekuliduporewisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncetrabzon.com/resimler/files/nozizatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blnk.eu/userfiles/files/gebawosirudanivuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://support-cmu.com/filedata/file/sosibagumefox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://28777886.com/Lpf/UPFILE/userfiles/files/55334037387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vilus.cz/userfiles/file/532173391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verimevzabavu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajafofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/90060991720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tumsad.org/img/editor/image/file/lixowavejerixaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairfresh.net/assets/admin/ckeditorimage/files/12944174861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etravelbox.com/scgtest/team-explore/uploads/files/tufovenajojuduvelew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalclinicbangalore.com/uploads/55713149810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fk7pr2hi0p4qsnh0tpp1cnnvbr/15581853718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exihomes.com/userfiles/files/7335461966.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_off0000ae8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE8B 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 014d2f67857fa9146b7193cb41d6805a367bdaabbcb2cd0785926c2ebe8059b2
font_01_sfnt_off0000c654.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC654 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000de66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE66 14500 bytes
SHA-256: 9b9f6923acf1299c9ff1b655f83a6677c1e6213741f09cf3db6b41ec12e11644