Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71af8b2854102d72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-09 17:53:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 521277013444d7a374898b1131811c7e SHA-1: abb5df0d74fcfd661f036a64a04b22d9885df865 SHA-256: 71af8b2854102d7202fefb51015b4ab2762d73e3954887667b2fb9a3ac042201
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a malicious document designed to trick users into visiting potentially harmful links.

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 http://artkulinaria.pl/sites/default/files/file/masewekibewejowatazi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/42287132151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tunguoilon.tunhua.vn/ipp/images/uploads/files/bovodowutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aeekk.xn--p1ai/files/file/11867602865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nb-magnet.com/upload/files/69787365007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readandenjoy.ae/userfiles/files/keluzipuvafigoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/84420976986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-biyoute.com/d/files/mirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/lugijoworozagipobaxevapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yavuzselimvakfi.org/resimler/site/files/22760546465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alistairmills.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuguza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/saluruto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/wizoxiwututidulumal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/jojarupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15284187140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopedrazzini.eu/userfiles/files/dusumolexabokojameporoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albertoangel.sinecsas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62760880296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/niriguxurarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/tobelos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrindaindia.com/php/joseph/uploads/file/58886494325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://florylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/76748114088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/81574184352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/sivobupeturobajarini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olech-rzeszow.pl/userfiles/file/41206323596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=grand+theft+auto+obb+file+downloadPDF 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_off0000e8a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A1 18184 bytes
SHA-256: ea1f6e94857c21530b94eef750f98aa687657929081f139428df0684f9d59a0c
font_01_sfnt_off0001175d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1175D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F74 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 4f20d1c038537ba8b1757731f706daa18c82255b96eca9744be6482f91ed1477