Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ba4b29f51d41b53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-10-01 04:16:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8a5c41fe6c07fb7366ae3497acee0377 SHA-1: 9e9d95b7eede76d35a310444705c1d2e28d1fb89 SHA-256: 7ba4b29f51d41b532ddc7de7f0edb0c7b17f00888a1f5b93849dd04d8c92ad43
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of link farms in PDFs often leads to phishing or malware downloads, aligning with the 'Spearphishing Attachment' technique. The presence of many unknown URLs suggests a distribution mechanism for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ccvt.vinaonegroup.net/upload/files/91288739762.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://isspskola.lv/userfiles/files/14265470369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sprinter-lab.ru/content/File/74188733749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.com/Images_upload/files/54285452266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/62209442795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiloverca.com/uploads/files/vobubokokobugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simkoongschool.com/uploads/editer/files/tobogagosomafapon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132764a7fd03---21504579938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/jivepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frchem.cn/upload/files/bojadoziligemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petrovsky14.ru/docs/files/razasepiwiruzuzodotuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/mopokoguxomaleten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://articolo17.it/siti/usr/foto/files/50436932608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buildingexpertsdirectory.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wifubuzoluwisubon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukeofmarshall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83720083897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfvillageonline.com/userfiles/file/25957752107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/54681458649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaaikdebj9ccf1ayja1b5a3q.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lowefuximomoniwimol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eortak.com/img/fck_temp/file/46691086644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gitialiganjlko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dunisunijuwisosifabuwapan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agenziaimmobiliarecannavo.eu/userfiles/files/79771987459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/pajinibufuvezuxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometgroupinternational.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nugafurolefubelelodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=best+course+for+kotlinPDF 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_off0000aebd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEBD 16316 bytes
SHA-256: fe7c80513b537e0b3b9dfbf528f8bb027c1bd0a3641c7f868a093499762fc20f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d88d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD88D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A4 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 7d2519ec1b831fee7e621f41328d74ecb4ae6893d8afe8e6e6fd064dc9ccfe39