Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c7f57e67c917f6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 23:44:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e60888be73ec9a1411f7e8a73963a8b3 SHA-1: 1501588a271d0f2c23177fcc6953d240383f5983 SHA-256: 7c7f57e67c917f6b49dbd6e4ec4ad63348d3ba7031a1fb5c808db04e58b68c4d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a malicious intent to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the PDF, likely used as a lure to distribute malware or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sonic+3+and+knuckles+apk+download+free+android PDF link annotation
    • http://hwayinn.com/image/files/20210917_002016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/wubono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130145392c70---41733705977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stijsr.com/userfiles/file/mulizixepoxevibagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarissoft.com/img/userfiles/files/61103983708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newabel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kokogaxonuburoxegunonam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unternehmensberatung-hegenbarth.de/userfiles/file/56482098767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camelliafb.com/uploads/files/202109092059573095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/33160699720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fratellilongoni.com/userfiles/files/tuwafufatikalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biharikft.hu/bihari-admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8134460661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aolisenjiancai.com/data/files/pikenekobapekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/22597153409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knurussian.kr/DATA/upload/files/202109131119103579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/tebokujonuwagilifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldcastlive.com/userfiles/file/vekijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanjali.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51108148683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfins-thailand.org/uploads/file/57539387391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381e146ceff---nagexoduro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paymentor.nl/uploads/file/fagulagofufitofipujaxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/risezaxodajoroxuzetiluwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-paca.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/32490548720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tebabu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bd54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d56b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD56B 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 9017f5e2aa68bec2c3cae13c0bd7b9a6c423ec766aa0f6d8146322f32ccd0572
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF4D 16224 bytes
SHA-256: c13550e4e1438ae59d0404d95bab7f4e8c171029122897fa655bf627bbbfca3a