Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8174c441c6f95f73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-10-06 23:48:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 40ee06fd41d272516f711cee06b90cf7 SHA-1: 9803d4938c348508682a14617b5b036ee8082b42 SHA-256: 8174c441c6f95f7356d9968841b59bad6e8e89276fb01047bffde5786e24bb1d
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable hosting and acting as a link farm, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The malformed stream length heuristic further supports the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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=rockefeller+and+company PDF link annotation
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161580d9cb5e31---lojakokut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kodemari.info/data/files/77078427472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://episcopiaoradiei.ro/files/nixorokixelazugefozona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pessin-location.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jujirewuloniteti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marjojaspers.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajizakikigokusolufejova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abzesolar.com/uploads/files/48864026036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/naguboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/33855449498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saconsultancy.com/userfiles/file/9285346329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/runagezodilif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verimevzabavu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71394140006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/99372150860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melly-incendie.fr/img_db/defeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviatroglo.fr/IMG/file/4516689406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projectmine.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toxovowiroguxusakosede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meadescafe.com/userfiles/file/fojisajopadumuzokutiniri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/98684952257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/jimimegibofezejariwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpiezasinasel.com/userfiles/files/zozazexazuresemetanurifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/tomururebonokodogixomumer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161477bdf99a60---xufegurer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.galiantsolutions.com/emailimages/file/76092790207.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_off0000b120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB120 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c937.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC937 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 433492cb52b8fa59524841aa282b41ac7ef11ac36f98133a3c35101ecd9afdec
font_02_sfnt_off0000e1ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1AB 15092 bytes
SHA-256: cfc820de363ba5753a04ce2abcb85a1e02e85861424dcec227bc517f8a1c9cfd