Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a439a3d78244bb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 14:52:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 52e6a834024e1b871e2f7d8cb56dd4c6 SHA-1: 41b8a13729363ecc7612ba405cba370cc8452b76 SHA-256: 7a439a3d78244bb7f83189d97a29e94cc3f74a9d607de11fe4e459c4fea942dd
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with many pointing to distinct hosts, indicative of a link farm. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggests this is a malicious tactic. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged the file as malicious, supporting the assessment of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612efc81c60d1---bimixugul.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/62271813527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongciao.com/uploads/files/202109011836325535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupekineconcept.com/userfiles/file/9158752513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioimaychaybo.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/gadojezofaxixexuguvonined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwclayton.com/uploads/files/30333895207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saiprogetti.net/userfiles/files/80391454082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimaglobal.net/ckupload/files/nipenuwalogovufuvupeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/vezozumumalexadefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gbfrjournal.org/pds/userfiles/files/vomujokamonasamojolowire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmytour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_C28914255961BAD2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimsanghun.com/upload/userfiles/file/20219101722430421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bydnjl.com/userfiles/files/68205063788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/josunepixevesiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392b46b5ddb---vemonuwomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madonnina.info/userfiles/files/jidalesamatojawero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/vadigape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gurarifamimilun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modamoda.nl/uploads/pic_lib/file/22086474771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/2349627336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/94026472993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemcom.org/userfiles/file/72502399041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/jirawapax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/68803958445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77597441330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=creative+cloud+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_off0000d284.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD284 20600 bytes
SHA-256: 53cf74a4d1c1e1af9c4bdf2dfb0572d453165f187139f2290cbba7e937739777
font_01_sfnt_off000108a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A2 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 67d74ba4aa87e010cf791a9dfd52235efe9e6cc389ed0bfa2761edb02d2ca12b
font_02_sfnt_off0001204a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1