Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8347ac90026c562b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-25 07:01:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ac77908455ff8e4e5a659e4c39a130f8 SHA-1: 628904ccdbf1cd6a4cec38874b8e4476481df9ae SHA-256: 8347ac90026c562bafeb84f2f6a7e0ec53f471a15ed913aab640bbad14dd7111
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the detection as a phishing/trojan PDF points towards an attack pattern involving directing users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://newo.ru/files/files/wotux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lianbang123.com/uploads/files/202109121733297251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prshots.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jomabip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiwoxedonevufav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161348e8701d17---jixitegupumezojasit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/nubaxazaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viktorina.ledoritulys.lt/files/wezetegerozuloxomajilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuacuonbentre.com/upload/files/kotokozigukawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroyindustry.com/userfiles/file/wigolivafizuvizovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durimawar.com/contents/files/gukodazunemamalozuworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://screen.by/images/file/61004904703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_E024136AABF5F36E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongphuc.vn/userfiles/file/jolutopelavulurelajuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/wimarakuluxuture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jadajizuravurobuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trlgpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/84422142777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohadalegistrocbarter.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/gonatobir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youandisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43432011626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenferro.com/userfiles/file/22430164807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-shodnya.ru/upload_picture/file/23985588390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijasprojekts.lv/files/file/bamuverubuwimenon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161300cb934c44---xewitorefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motovelo-nmsk.ru/userfiles/file/zikiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/82772511199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=simpsons+tapped+out+apk+iosPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB334 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB4B 10672 bytes
SHA-256: c7b608fed2b9648400774ede21df697cd9ea81a9fae3a4a017601f1febc8e06a
font_02_sfnt_off0000e3b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B9 16192 bytes
SHA-256: 700188ee0db7521fcb1a6993d06c814cc66555d7c006e7e6ebd20b7cc6a1fc6c