Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81f816b6574dc744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-10-01 12:51:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 194e445c7ab78df053b7442eb11221d9 SHA-1: 3bd0d6a5e5baa326ef9d3269ca450df2945d7295 SHA-256: 81f816b6574dc744efe1ff81610bfee7d0497559d22e6c30dd27dfa67ab81fcd
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using small PDFs as link farms on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs further supports this, pointing towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=paramount+network+firestick PDF link annotation
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51381987845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/27385206381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laskod.hu/userfiles/file/82418592337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vedepcuaem.com/luutru/files/nogidasaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/10613188083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161520dc4a89b2---ravuxizavujutodefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuturesthai.com/uploads/files/buzubudimujixutipawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14593615881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/xudoxotinibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-de-la-ferme.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15980050685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peter-scherer.de/userfiles/file/67857154464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidsjeodo.com/images/files/sofivepube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-acm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xilamuposipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eichler-kammerer.de/5358714197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elturo.ru/img/upload/files/39508152211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.flamanville-76.fr/upload/file/36206980856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/jabajexururerimamegisumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8908811f66eedf2a20f29e1b4fdafe3/wezasefaxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenhucchi.com/upload/files/nazadufevelesepelakozab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pengyou-english.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210928_9300CFDEC52B1DFC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canoe.ro/Extras/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sebinafunumabate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjbmachinery.com/d/files/jotazusoruxufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nt-module.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zesosaxugokajiwogabupagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreoltour.ru/sites/default/files/file/kijalaporokowijil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subded.org/userfiles/file/10602707559.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_off0000b00e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB00E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c820.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC820 15216 bytes
SHA-256: 5e4415a5627edfa8ca55ff4ce74bbade82c5a22e33801b93110de1ba04d1be85
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE9C 10728 bytes
SHA-256: ec84d9680e67b158aa4743bf7678650e2eed812352c4b282e489be6457845d8d