Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85de4588d72df36b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 08:43:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 3a4ef3fb0eeca450088a29428e44a60a SHA-1: 06f063f6ccb232a9139a71a9ef23603c71eeeae3 SHA-256: 85de4588d72df36b96ae482a9684c1818962da503404010e9d8d50106a999fed
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and is flagged as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://ecohort.info/userfiles/files/74774495923.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/34293436271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinyezi.cn/upload/nuwurodamuzoxijozesikin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaautorepair.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/62887793801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castel.lu/userfiles/files/telesavexejixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/tipokotibege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/68544140630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/jiputuzubibolixanamedijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users/file/4665829161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robedecreateur.com/img/files/20463009292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/80434260935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfalu.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/febuzirizurevuvim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alirezamirmohammadi.com/images/upload/files/luvanararozorigabosowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/xojajonaduganazodimalovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sooam.com/files/fckeditor/file/341305410613f9198d4bda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olymp-kiev.com/temp/fckeditor/file/fivotofiwulesowadibomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listocrm.com/userfiles/files/rodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serge-valentin.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/monunuzasoluxisiruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rosfte0m6vmh0da5e2rntgh7oc/lejewewesusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/takewijulesuroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://longislandinvestmentadvisors.com/nini/userfiles/file/8689713367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eatatrudy.com/uploads/files/sebigejudarinifarazumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/14274130276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210916230442_cfrskp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/54632794739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuresi-kaitori.com/upload/content_pic/files/10858109877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=download+castle+clash+guild+royalePDF 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_off0000dd77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD77 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f58e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58E 10948 bytes
SHA-256: b3c03c81937ac167194aeff96f8bfdd3728b8621716b7c9c6ad1cbcc9358417b
font_02_sfnt_off00010ec0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC0 18284 bytes
SHA-256: c1b79ced474102586e8e9b65850607327b9a0123a9a1b7bd161e89cc966c272d