Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70aa5e238bd32e9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:12:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e5490c3a56829acb0bf7b3533573c760 SHA-1: 5602a5f9571336ddf3ac77e0a60e025ec88f052d SHA-256: 70aa5e238bd32e9f3fa8e6ce63254deecbb657f2bc1d9ca4109250d4fa9577e8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of multiple embedded URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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=photo+editor+collage+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614554c623a48---kuwiforabotofavumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crc.creativechange.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jokote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vatlieubaooncachnhiet.com/userfiles/file/xabiboromizejavideri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingprocess.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zinanaberedewusekurefotov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgs-on-track.com/app/webroot/userfiles/file/30271348375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lixavazazugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thenikharvconsultancy.com/userfiles/file/8192112471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutunggiahungoto.com/uploads/files/83187203272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erh-hu.com/userfiles/file/27530562346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rehahomecare.com/upload/editor/files/todixufavabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/96566492401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilayunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nawowoxoxosid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saothienemb.com/uploads/images/files/kipebabesixonema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukdae.com/files/fckeditor/file/gitaworidaruderofinaluliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/73107187784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wupaojichangjia.com/d/files/26538353120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lighthouse-connection.at/myPix/file/jabimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/25314754560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/mojuwuforikuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buzejuzabixadidaxola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idominjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/bufopojef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dzerzhinskij.ru/upload_picture/file/4288887082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613958b2d4b6e---nakonukigemunimibume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinemidias.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nodamareduj.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_off0000e447.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE447 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5E 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 77739970634d5e124b76f0f9502cb3165c3e37e412f62faa8061d623cf0843e7
font_02_sfnt_off00011488.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11488 18916 bytes
SHA-256: 1e1c156e494d52c30ede42d7f488d79b1567e28d28d00fa82d02e6f20129d7c7