Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85a4bac04edc7e0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 17:42:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5d9d0f8743249db5e85634b84045467c SHA-1: 73990654b81c449fe60d8a8de9e32d2409a1b35c SHA-256: 85a4bac04edc7e0d6a6ae482e5d7624630722b3729f39ccd5a71b1f3201f70c7
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service, a common lure for phishing attacks. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable domains, further supports this. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving a phishing or credential harvesting scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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://tw-echen.com/uploads/files/202109180222372848.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/90082532074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/kuxududavamunogopiluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortocircuito.trialpanel.com/images/Upload/files/basonekikutoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cavice.fi/tiedostot/files/vojixotemofivekofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebaldebaran.eu/userfiles/files/49636710266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/zelitevunixovajukivese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/20116629965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/46652393801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wish-pharma.com/upload/files/2609201098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/37088645994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://effekt-film.de/files/file/11593344738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafmoni2biho.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88762271921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/lojutadosiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzsabegi60szallo.hu/UserFiles/File/bigesavesaduvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210916222429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoj0agf7cq.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/39861139765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137161b5a1f6---geloforiwolafejod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/sujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smwebtechnology.com/arishayurveda.com/userfiles/file/8925259726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/wezikixapejebiposave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c667f19c4b---puvevebised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aurorabersinar2.com/contents/files/90056115002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caissedesecolesdu5eme.fr/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xipixubumuzovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolapezzano.it/userfiles/files/setukodidukikojexawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiensa.com/UserFiles/File/nizuxetavofufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=office+365+cloud+loginPDF 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_off0000d1b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C3 18164 bytes
SHA-256: aa156edf448221bb296c75eee046abfa330c37899b7267a514f674866fd78d5e
font_02_sfnt_off00011971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11971 10724 bytes
SHA-256: bcbe05ee937a72420737e0451a7224f706b988c9906e224ccb103bbff0d2796e