Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81ca880fa895c5ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 16:12:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fe9d27df79ef600f017f379643a7c860 SHA-1: de800eab476b1ac40d807816867b86765ba88767 SHA-256: 81ca880fa895c5ac93a9b40d830b88486929eadefd0518d87d30680f59458f51
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content generated by wkhtmltopdf, further suggesting a malicious intent rather than legitimate document content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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=z+stickman+battle+of+dragon+warrior+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://klubkanine.com/home/klub/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nogoninuzanut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/bawibez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaku3c.tw/uploads/files/202109011648433390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hybsch.it/upload/file/gezuxibafekewodivas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rarahil.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xifimogofirasilanigix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30017901062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbirozskepodzamci.cz/userfiles/5799744095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mn-print.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36034070353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chingchia.com/uploads/files/202109161843337736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xobuwadunofiwedig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.hu/upload/95841225433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatiyabhashaparishad.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dipapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belretail.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34504516529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/tibejudilugasujinovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlmahtani.com/userfiles/files/7559761251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banquat.com/userfiles/files/bipusigelalozimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/pejaxesalariwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindhuinvestment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vikiwosomifejamawezetud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gandolfiarchitetti.com/userfiles/files/lefusakodufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokalensemble-vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/7541338618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdn10.cz/files/file/nevaninosajav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e6550600726e1813e5651c2887ca6fe/napiliganuriwudotegiweju.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_off0000b36d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB36D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB7F 16200 bytes
SHA-256: ba092b950eccaa528b8bf4077903fd490abd28de5eb9e74bbd3ab8d609dd19e4
font_02_sfnt_off0000f519.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF519 11244 bytes
SHA-256: fff191052234a91ed4491bf44f57f3be55b0163b0ec0b9544376e48845fb7b06