Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8262842c88b15f6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 14:19:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 572b64a9a3cd6fba1dd9e176dc3813bb SHA-1: 9ec58c1501fe367f0c77cbf3a980493bdd6ee857 SHA-256: 8262842c88b15f6a7c05efe67189142b10f1c85d9cf4851fbd3ba83b4dcf01a0
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm PDF. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious or phishing sites, such as 'https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fake+credit+card+picture+generator'. The PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to external resources, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fake+credit+card+picture+generator PDF link annotation
    • http://alfadent-volg.ru/images_uploads/files/wuzewof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/61869055461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/xalegumitejuwapidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paddockj.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/vimigutabuvet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimandyoo.com/userfiles/file/subejakunaxixapudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/91837902945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osheamaloneynylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bobit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque.ville.deux-montagnes.qc.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fizizulanofuwajedut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotocaroli.it/userfiles/files/zitulimemowanoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5pbvk8mte8rerj8ddv8s55o17/joxilivukibunulosejipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kar360.com/resimler/files/gofibavepel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eyela.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/66207636454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giyimkent.formenemlak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/34127367370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/garuzizimudisida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/wezifemarege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkykinhdoanhkiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/99747871639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/niruwexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtualcharityevents.com/vce_cake/files/files/kaburopujogewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://officialbacknumber.org/editor_up/87081864989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613878a5e6666---70490834763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vopizibevudewotemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhihepvb.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109121828331515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/60084518837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runwellconsulting.com/file/file/kurelinidifus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finalbrand.cz/upload/file/tebovivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cytokin.ca/upload/editor/file/99689477927.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_off0000e334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE334 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 1dd2a47f6eb1e4ae04d19cc6f44ca49b9a16dfbe60eddf546ae6b7074e68b4bb
font_01_sfnt_off00011071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11071 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12888 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 869eae80b21847f26b254ba35ef81c28458084b854c289fa36a57451e9940624