Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70d61b1da77d8414…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 02:30:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 63ba753b27ac04bd7aa29633f391006a SHA-1: 0aaab6160f09ec08e8d7563e93e2959da1bcdc80 SHA-256: 70d61b1da77d84146d793b6a45662d7939fb1cfece203e54437fa9700ec2badb
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are part of a link farm, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a spearphishing attachment designed to redirect users to malicious 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 http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c77b33ab3---74432199059.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pol2-simf.ru/userfiles/file/45142880530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeanchapleau.com/userfiles/file/19545374165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinocelltech.com/filespath/files/20210909062827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karinameal.ru/imgdish/files/zowevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krantiservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23167122609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansungsala.com/uploads/files/73868766439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/2109070524495930139i8njguhp40s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/sutijesas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnv-cnc.gr/userfiles/file/jeparuxaponixololaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d1a8131ea---59753761257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minipowerpack.net/upload/files/tuderapasafasigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rs-entp.com/upload/file/fuwudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/80729477437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oskarmak.com/userfiles/file/misudevonunurawepetumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bbmnetlicitacoes.com.br/cms/ckfinder/upload/files/3037688077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledspectrumthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70900337511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didula.ru/img/file/79919027407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartstone.ca/userfiles/files/71377682026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/10717918993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/kefiwozaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litroshaber.net/resimler/files/netabov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apra.pl/files/file/66282121952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chataigne-cevennes.fr/imgs/files/gomowinafisatijulep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ural-aiti.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78004119036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=oem+unlock+codePDF 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_off0000c83b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC83B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE052 10128 bytes
SHA-256: 7282785fa4aa21000f49e1b22bc6b6cac9dfaffaa5abcd6db6b853ec7dc04242
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E4 18352 bytes
SHA-256: 8b777bbf183352fc5dfc1ff44c023eff716e9a4264c81d2b6957aa14925ed13f