Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85fada44b600ea86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 15:51:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0266fe7cd2e6b234c37a0ad1f348ab73 SHA-1: 7799cbc011122725f37c9ec51f806a8649c33999 SHA-256: 85fada44b600ea865949c8ba6388dec549c1279920a3b4511fac787335a7da07
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous external URLs, many pointing to PDF files, suggests a link farm or distribution mechanism for malicious content. The 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic indicates a deceptive user interface element, likely intended to trick users into downloading a payload. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the heuristics and the external links strongly suggest the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities or trick users into executing a secondary stage, likely involving JavaScript or other client-side exploits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fzmovies+download+movies PDF link annotation
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///sobexilufiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijacr.net/assets_admin/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/lukufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://postelezmasivu-brno.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wusemezifutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magicfood-cn.com/files/20210915162456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-fonika.pl/upload/file/57115779555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coolscape.info/images/files/18700698025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://customize.fr/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/Editor/file/xutazamixej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pscemetery.com/userfiles/file/xepixovujesetupaxawono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bank-kredit.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62363831263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmsmarin.com/imgimage/file/65161365673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shijijiaming.cn/filespath/files/20210912041616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chatham-ebenezer.ckdomain.com/uploads/userfiles/files/luduvovubuvutamunafisaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmaciasacoor.com/site/upload/file/87524401761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microcement.ua/userfiles/file/61286028277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musikpark-live.de/userfiles/file/wevopugiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-store-sys.com/userfiles/file/masafebivebosapito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dautuck.com/uploads/userfiles/file/45191135406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.com/userfiles/file/20210914094507_1438256257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bischofs-scheune.de/userfiles/file/23248831463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60200702606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/51920199078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhoasis.org/app/webroot/img/fck/file/77614995259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318628beba9---73047582166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilonew.tasksplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44250906316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://institut-arabe.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/texajenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011b44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B44 17460 bytes
SHA-256: 08e34a4b673cb1490484e0309a1b8e8e2eb5eef70701cf67bfcaa39d7c889b90
font_01_sfnt_off000148aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148AA 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 4d385428a9be574eee32353e4efb6ad6f66361effbfc5715c1138284e47249a8
font_02_sfnt_off00016043.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16043 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1