Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a0fcfe79564416c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-10-03 08:04:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 19a763391f593aad61ffe8cde00eb509 SHA-1: 578a152069dd1c6144de99048937eae7df75d1f4 SHA-256: 6a0fcfe79564416c2a1a1643d0e951992200df42793f3a2cc91345b9b01fc5a5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically points to this tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=acute+coronary+syndrome+guidelines+2017 PDF link annotation
    • http://solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43074904724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5mal4.de/moneyvidya/web/images/userfiles/file/65156347039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northwestconvention.cz/data/files/rekenubudatori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehpromyar.ru/media/file/xopizogomimugezoxonewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestwingsbeltsville.com/uploads/files/34017546087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhuadailoan.vn/upload/userfiles/files/57188724536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ametansk.ru/uploads2/solufif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615351adcd79b---befulagevujifenafodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartickgroup.com/userfiles/xixaginudipegewajotisujam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainbowfurnitures.com/files/files/gurudul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amt-alarmy.pl/userfiles/file/nitisonapizaterewumemudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchoggianiepartners.it/userfiles/files/22489863015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tefotobeseginoxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/57673339061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giadinhmedia.com/uploads/files/kevajusezidolenej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210928125656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/saboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajkylevne.cz/UserFiles/File/69566559239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianspringhomes.net/userfiles/files/48016354619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolecasetta.it/userfiles/files/sopaximela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landonintergroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20935833123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costarica4d.com/contents/files/79728882748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukysovin.com/img-svc/files/bawofapetawavigovirajese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travel-door.com/userfiles/file/35827117031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141c44703b2c---74725855718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nukisobasurewuwur.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_off0000c3f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3F2 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 9836d27810d4dcd336eb8115d0c0150da4f57591e8f12ce8650679f72e0cb085
font_01_sfnt_off0000de51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE51 18888 bytes
SHA-256: c1dff8acdc8bba487280716d1d48983a478550ad617bfdb94366590e8ee90ab9
font_02_sfnt_off00010f96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1