Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d49d9eb22d9c581…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 14:22:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 16e31923ff390de4bce91a3fe01b50fb SHA-1: 8dc256e9708b7cba2dc0a511c722aa907612229f SHA-256: 7d49d9eb22d9c58161e81514531c0fd9a059344e024733e0a95654c979504b2f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm with numerous external URIs. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a high volume of links hosted on potentially disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the PDF and its embedded links strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely via a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=composite+simpson%27s+rule PDF link annotation
    • http://gardenofsound.com/userfiles/files/29112660288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaponenajosobuvowir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/33186998761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shih-tzu.ro/files/file/nipasonuzerukonudodobob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/51647571909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketdoanbus.com/webroot/img/files/sotedadorotazesowajer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allgeology.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65367191654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorsoftexas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/52019325982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33527382469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukeofmarshall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pulazakodowaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/sijetafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphammonly.com/luutru/files/fexupibozeniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/norowekav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsde.com/uploads/files/zaloge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leresto-niort.fr/images/userfiles/files/88682215995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/219ed6fa597ac6bae695208b86bc4175/xamizewitelabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innobiztour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_9A7D522118CFFB99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/2633950951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecofincas.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39585995402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddmmaze.altruistictech.org/documents/img/upload/files/gurawivojugutejosutar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613150d83c1b5---gipiteluwoputobegiludaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yunnanyingxiang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nurevikaxokuxagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-ball.net/files/file/41721727142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modulobase.com/userfiles/file/34341742652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/palulusanafesef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zge-led.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/tumaxojofofo.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_off0000de0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE0E 10416 bytes
SHA-256: acf3b88608e30917a9b0fa85a7cf52699ef15ef388ad902e92da84eea7a1b919
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010dbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DBF 21020 bytes
SHA-256: 0b638e3459b87f920a45ffc5cb17c0a5af3b5bc2bd7f9a1e4b9c0a04c2194f4f