Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 738e4f27d83d969c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 03:15:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 19141ef25a588809a0c730eb4755adba SHA-1: 8072111b89198230e9d9808fe8075e044c05ca2e SHA-256: 738e4f27d83d969cc3b8366169ad5dee095e64ede9674c30fc0990bbc8f4335b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is flagged as a link farm on disposable hosting, indicating a malicious intent to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attack pattern involving redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+studio+dialogfragment PDF link annotation
    • https://corpeverest.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/katopasewekuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saipanbooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_9CC28E2421550E30.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domoticasociale.it/immaginiNewsletter/file/dewejibutowatepipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livresdarts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6580091716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jysunshine-hotel.com/up_files/file/nomiwamovesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/lamiburuxokixoxober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metisentry.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22064901065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77092653416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificioilcavaliere.it/userfiles/files/nozelusulaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shop-cartuning.pl/userfiles/file/89165425319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transporteslaplata.com/imagenes_web/file/gomivopitokik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146ee5a4c4e8---64160977633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimuselearningschool.com/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/tujeloloxarejug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oodow.cn/upload/file/210919231506620312rrmig5dlzgv1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kodosikikosejob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kepco-group.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/73996149880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beyondpins.com/calisma2/files/uploads/26467035671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147d1ddc11f4---gabixezironaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newhorizonscrisiscenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sunekifakibiduga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servauto.fr/img/user/file/wodapix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glampingcaravan.com/userfiles/file/20210917061833.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off0000e78c.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE78C 16768 bytes
SHA-256: fefcec8533fa83157b3d3f31b7f35951d54aeb886fcf93817134b7d8f0fac314
font_00_sfnt_off0000c61a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC61A 2068 bytes
SHA-256: c1a6cbc687586f74c636821a73f6352f65dbbead7a650a693409bc3a91a35709
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0000ff79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF79 24072 bytes
SHA-256: 197bfe3c4aaf71d2cc4948889db2a9fd9deb4601ff2366cdcb2f830f36a34c7b
font_04_sfnt_off00013ba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BA8 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 99abf657f1df8ba9bf46b8058ff1c7c584037483f00ead902dbd307fa4be2008