Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 512bf8bbbc1f1cd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 04:56:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: aeb2714897597f8d6c317f63e19f6cbb SHA-1: 7a5adfbc304d30f5dbbcc41a39025eb7a66631ac SHA-256: 512bf8bbbc1f1cd118d7a208304e07f0ac8480d97202c1a64a6e57d4c2180e8c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable hosting and exhibiting link farm characteristics, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ink+master+season+3+full+episodes PDF link annotation
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/go14scjo5h93v676e2dv37stg6/75106113200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvumucin.com/upload/ckupload/files/65797429110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homecareangels.ca/files/files/files/5582117903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wu-pao.com/upfiles/editor/files/tufejijalim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/samezabokazanolefiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/28672931573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fbce5305a9---65289005547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnspkjx.com/d/files/novobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paseppe.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutivomojepizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manage3.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/xidekigivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szilasfood.hu/pic_upload/files/jadurepik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaifilmind.com/UserFiles/file/wuponaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/14966623196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dewoxapujixapixat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjchenxing.com/filespath/files/20210917195809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/74868119698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promobryansk.ru/userfiles/files/zajazogik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorcefinance.nl/uploads/file/xojugeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thai-airpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61340126288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hockjoohin.com/admin/uploads/file/dozakidawutotodasiberil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondadejean.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/67102568411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenbins.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bazubozafewuruninaxeb.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_off0000c606.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC606 17296 bytes
SHA-256: bd321e3510e222589c8a666ee648bd5a1b35f73ad0400db4c2ea414b448d11e4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ac4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC4 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 1be731335be93192289d7ac090098ab998559373131e7c4fcc07db21b4a19fec