Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 798ea7648be43a6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 21:03:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 193c60b5de3996c07f0adbc5b3aff484 SHA-1: 5e3cd28f3e4cf66ef8c063b13643385066d8d2bd SHA-256: 798ea7648be43a6cf3e0c97288ed98f33ab14a94de8caae44e191297000b9877
86 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are structured as a link farm, indicating a phishing or social engineering attempt. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and one of the extracted URIs points to a raw IP address, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect the user to a compromised site. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a malicious document designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 5

  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://japhina.com/upload/file/peferegukuwupoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://a-b-i-s.net/layout/bilder/file/wuzuketojabuwesover.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614175019831b---49919492189.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///93351719860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woori-tour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210917_FFE2CABA2C5FCACE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gleason.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tevinufenolizegoremapol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dwitunggaljaya.com/sitefiles/file/47529626022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vectorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/tiloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613986282be48---63624062602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613612fb1032b---kilezafabugutasavili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hardiebase.com/uploads/assets/filefile/masuvirenuxadegexigab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mauchlineware.com/html/chapelstreet/web/userfiles/files/27847765551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/wajenato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classconnbio.com/img-jacson/files/57472669262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dean-cpa.com/files/adminpic/file/dufuboretoxafelenisuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/pugupezizodabaredunapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonerihned.cz/userfiles/file/83361183303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiduongmetal.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/zegunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newo.ru/files/files/89932349532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlantidegattico.it/file/16900977762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamhead.net/userfiles/file/5178523605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plechotice.sk/tmp/file/20426148738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/files/files/73025725112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfhotel.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/figojaxixabufikakisugib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=problems+sending+photos+from+iphone+to+androidPDF 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_off0000e06e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f880.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF880 18372 bytes
SHA-256: 3fd95c8dca73026c366bd0d0aefa042c45f50413068214ae75e4d5dcee7d3a8a
font_02_sfnt_off00012800.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12800 11084 bytes
SHA-256: ce4b0c6b0c3c5f07f9fbf92dd03b5fbe780d9ea02e601962256189eab700fc05