Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 848aff9921f73f48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 17:19:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 225f7887ddae4095481d509edc31b755 SHA-1: d8bfc14b3a6cab89fb79d96a64b9faca1d2588bc SHA-256: 848aff9921f73f485a8df27988d2760e7d79b2593930f10b92163acf08d08cf1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document contains numerous links to distinct, potentially disposable hosts, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://nuk-amro.de/userfiles/file/56072539516.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://leaders-adv.net/userfiles/file/visovobulapurolaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korea-seals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59868560960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.com/eurostyl/photos/file/23288072469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestsearch.in/admin/uploads/file/xebeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.bdbabymart.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nasonoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/72425712498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapetcenter.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/78687278789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oomedia.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14483531070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://merohamro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ludofusozubipore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ez4parcel.net/upfile/files/2021/09/06/zokodanijabefibalujop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambres-a-la-ferme-plouzelambre.fr/userfiles/file/9750461041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-eria.pl/mandarynka/pliki/files/wowemexeravujoxiweme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsixiang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210904060459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/84811067924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e5728cc5ca---97452667218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naveenent.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/62272878521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashura.co/userfiles/files/wemevojijezot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinda.ru/pics/images/file/21992739782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecniconuti.it/userfiles/files/17194742943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fad1327523---xusaxawikiwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56275794421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81113811300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepaltrekkinginhimalaya.com/assets/userfiles/files/lajojepufujapavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itchanoi.vn/uploads/news_file/82286470736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=can+t+delete+files+from+sd+card+androidPDF 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_off0000f402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF402 10668 bytes
SHA-256: a404ae87b50360998052915638ae406de43ab13e9bbf8f54c85ef955070e0503
font_01_sfnt_off00010c72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C72 18288 bytes
SHA-256: 4f0162f0431feb5d0fa685381ec2f43d5e70fe18488c8e0efa06ae430359c140
font_02_sfnt_off00013c0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1