Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67c55b89129329f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-10-03 19:52:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: a28a3f525dd93e5075d1ffbaa66ec23d SHA-1: 63f8e9a55602b509f876e69ebd1803360b939780 SHA-256: 67c55b89129329f9f9bfbd1fddc1f2c8dc53f887e70a8326ed210f1e1ae7fd1d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic and the sheer volume of unknown-reputation URLs suggest a coordinated effort to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+good+earth+chapter+5+summary PDF link annotation
    • http://wsm.hk/images/files/78342094705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theblare.com/image/upload/file/gezila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strings97.hu/userfiles/file/loxizebijaxoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145263695055---gerifem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hichipper.com/hichipper/uploadfile/file/2021091215362973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestofbeer.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77683782951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bud-drog.pl/userfiles/file/niwuzefepiviselumuwoboki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealordhotels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/milidolizawupuwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelpancharatna.com/assets/userfiles/files/87420305051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topup-fight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10763152828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/81891100412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrieshorst.nl/images/uploads/file/sonozotibajexikizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peisheng.org/uploads/ckfiles/files/613cb3dddc705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warwick-ems.org/userfiles/file/vofukasivusowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queenart.kr/userData/board/file/tovorepofek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48681b6855f076b477b14e19cb3d13a4/5855948600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaab5bgii0ck.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10415537714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indel.sk/userfiles/file/6460161796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iranjobex.com/cache/fck_files/file/wefamiserasufosadumiwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korvioinfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57012432934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keitbg.com/images/files/38508133950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emtracing.net/userfiles/file/zoniwezesubawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portecitadelle.portecitadelle.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taxijimuder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demo-calson.garment-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58139823406.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_off0000be8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE8E 11032 bytes
SHA-256: a9ba649adb26c829c7116d36e3d0a38d9b98f3ab111816d5c0e972d54d623e36
font_01_sfnt_off0000d82a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD82A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f03c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF03C 20116 bytes
SHA-256: cafb7998fb67ef99232d61a022bea18fbc907290f88cc156200a433f81dc918c