Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ce9f271fbf8dd27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-24 21:17:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 17f04d7c7e4b44c6d1caeb03c5545f26 SHA-1: da5152723f09c54d8265ef37cd3ec9146e3532de SHA-256: 7ce9f271fbf8dd273556caf1184463f80ab4ae35b0698eb82398d621ece4b352
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially malicious PDF files hosted on various domains. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a strategy to distribute links across many domains, likely to evade detection and increase reach. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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 http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/mubuzunotekozodasuk.pdf
    • https://niboparis.com/upload/fckeditor/file/1630986869_1.pdf
    • http://trevelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85582326204.pdf
    • http://nepodoshlo.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36557049628.pdf
    • http://sunil.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/wulobetazutu.pdf
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3bbc209eef19dce4ca3b64d26e6068f/4593231741.pdf
    • https://khachsan295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/maxenal.pdf
    • http://iact2001.com/userData/board/file/vatirovusemusol.pdf
    • http://www.prodomasa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35401175905.pdf
    • http://ondrejkocar.cz/img/file/50844689769.pdf
    • http://lesen-und-schenken.de/userfiles/files/32150231881.pdf
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/161390673545b2---dezedasimafupux.pdf
    • http://www.motocams.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wokisowanifi.pdf
    • https://aslplastic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5783219913.pdf
    • https://spvi.cn/filespath/files/20210906070642.pdf
    • http://chiari-web.com/ckfinder/optimist/files/ligewefuwokixuteduneposo.pdf
    • https://ost-fogging.com/upload/files/burejewenagenad.pdf
    • https://taechoclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_0D63F5BBD76B8DE8.pdf
    • http://papaicountrylodge-longstay.com/user_img/files/kuralaxuzumotulujat.pdf
    • http://diagcorlifescience.com/attachment/file/puvigelovi.pdf
    • https://www.aillant-sur-tholon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wedanoxanotoresewu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=english+vocabulary+for+ielts+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000afa3.bin
38c6faeb4bd5e57193a1685a88b3a179063af50d3d35e2fde8abe61830e6a39c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFA3 14940 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4eb.bin
94f129072fcfab22341f160a802435af2a63507a10a2b2369eb5d1f38663fec0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4EB 11304 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef0d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF0D 16792 bytes