Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57e94227100af5bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 07:01:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fc03d66d3b51dc0ff75bf35ecda42582 SHA-1: 261d730df1c6e50ecf97651804eb2c8e64b7c9d6 SHA-256: 57e94227100af5bf90b0575077f9a9c5112ebd22cc48513132f44dac7cdc11a1
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to PDF files on disposable hosting, suggests a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content or phish for information. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a malicious workflow, likely involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or social engineering to trick users into downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/vizajigurubasun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://apartament-krokus.pl/userfiles/file/popejuwinifut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smenergy.kr/uploaded/file/9741856826136bca100f95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domilot.com/uploader/files/leromamebidusis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://excitechem.com/userfiles/file/mudarikugex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/dufiremikazuwexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abbma.in/admin/uploads/file/jinutavagabudujisaxevar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragoniresorts.com/userfiles/fuvezalomekajumapimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srilangkapools.com/contents/files/83279517572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lube-stc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32832702198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/perexerokozowebupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e37c087def---54112143507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/55274007931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89833601905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/zugifukigazapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangmeideyiliao.com/uploadfile/file///2021091102012198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161314c2ca30d2---xibexikirawusitakagavopev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.privathospitaletkollund.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vonifotoresufodujuruwesam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dokalaripuveba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/23970586904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eniedu.com/data/file/20210903065317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samajsutra.com/userfiles/files/senuruxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icareonline.net.au/ckfinder/icare/files/tesuvasovedujomuwuluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=a+quiet+place+2+full+movie+2020+online+123moviesPDF 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_off0000e2a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2A0 17724 bytes
SHA-256: ced316b6b525a7406c884dd946eb2a8f85013aca4b2729f083cf6f4fc7c1226a
font_01_sfnt_off00010fef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FEF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012806.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12806 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 93d0a2e572c3d33395465d67f8eb29c4aa2022f90f5200a8656899c1dad70166