Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f3aa0812d157e5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 16:15:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8a4f7fca3174f9d9a74c9f28510527ec SHA-1: 21a13a70a09e48c10cb147c460dc04f77ba04f23 SHA-256: 7f3aa0812d157e5b8d7a9eea41b770e462f6f7043aa8db10b2c99f6f03299f54
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are structured to appear as file downloads. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a high volume of links on disposable hosting, suggesting a tactic to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ad%26d+2nd+edition+priest+spells+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://chinazzjx.com/d/files/64446219386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtarrytowndeli.com/uploads/files/13354314661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windfreeklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kusirirajitetir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cottoneauto.it/userfiles/files/ranojakasiravilixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/3112669724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinostandards.net/upload/files/sasuwovenidogikamuxesaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://american-security-inc.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gujowebawozirol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gewurazemafonokebuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bong-dem-long.org/upload/editor/files/bogukirim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn---42-5cdakyymnnb9ake1az.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35606088508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebal.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/porabavuwukoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk4education.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vowerepagifolego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuaphucluong.com/uploads/image/files/jovenitetuzuguvipuwotor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamaeassociates.com/images/uploads/originals/file/37386112604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panelshock.com/userfiles/file/17224882555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb-hospital.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/79083780004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c09e705525e7964d1c0ee4a4f244da7/24839263606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.css-jp.com/upfile/files/2021/09/04/zaxapofonigagejagitefowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxerdapolenta.com/cmsimple/images/file/92261993358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divetechmarine.com/contents/files/gavafarenogimiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bjjewels.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/50520319185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f0c9e350e---21154412488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://get-insurance.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47931280622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stemcellhairclinic.com/files/files/turef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210909204745_z3tdrs.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_off0000ccd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCD1 24264 bytes
SHA-256: be16683bbedccb4941359e2a56944930f4dd1e1425b2d4570842b9bdd9e62580
font_01_sfnt_off00010b8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123A2 9192 bytes
SHA-256: cec472d94eb3fdb0df358ebc6477a54accfbb063ec4a1f62a798cb8c4131dde5