Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 840f0256e985b9af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 15:42:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ca700b01af2aa0a3f75707b4075741f6 SHA-1: cd0fd8a3618caa66d57ebf9b78faf39287c5c89f SHA-256: 840f0256e985b9af0eeaeeb3565d9f45591681a63aa7fe8fbd68ce9a9670d7c8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to a link farm hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a deliberate attempt to obscure the final destination through a network of small, unrelated links.

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 http://xn--80aafjbaeihgganggf9ajkncugh2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/28801193654.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://neza.cz/UserFiles/File/61512154500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail-ex.net/userfiles/file/savut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriardue.it/userfiles/files/fodexolawiripa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itagqatar.zajeltel.com/itag/file/files/4322330549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/19760031313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorsoftexas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/tijikibigazanivet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140bbe2c735e---jixefonawasibanijotofatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahasat.cz/data/file/30867434374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/39516629448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serramentisiciliano.it/userfiles/files/moxititegexate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d16616ad86---7468969234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blesk-stroy.ru/userfiles/files/61347148247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/8576624753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printsolutions.printsolutions.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/9598306211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepatsasaran.com/contents/files/18112823482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henzefashion.com/userfiles/file/20978510460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snft.ro/media/file/26155463214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ndmoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tesureguvarux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/netebebiridiladefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--sanitrprofi-p8a.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/tokufogilobisixuwuworejok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietmoiquangle.com/webroot/img/files/kamifanimebolisifix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=blockman+go+apk+download+latest+versionPDF 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_off0000afb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFB7 15140 bytes
SHA-256: a947f1f1ad243b0561eef8ee538c2dc797a8d79d58045dbe6231b461210ecdd6
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eddc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDC 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 0bbea8b2a50bf97ca6e1290bae5bae826c70f504fd01ded2a70187be86a31a38