Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86425cea52eda825…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 12:43:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b433241b7502ef1ebec299ca98612291 SHA-1: 8783e71733c5559ab1833fa349ae6e9d865a485f SHA-256: 86425cea52eda825ff7517cdb9279a2570dfe9cd3d0b1bb7dd02e787ac3c3de2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/keloxaxurujasili.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/files/xawujipomabudurewuzudofus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greensquares.in/userfiles/file///zizefuvasizovuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xycrusher.com/d/files/86262658462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/83625128094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://platcometals.com/images/file/giridemugepofujepodep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michellenevinracing.com/FCKeditor/file/15760889560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonaparte-kerkrade.nl/fckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/file/51404391849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepaltrekkinginhimalaya.com/assets/userfiles/files/36810955843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pediatricpotentialsnj.com/PP/PPpng/files/92698419677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5596219242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarybrescello.it/userfiles/files/29082772089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136af33f2006---48370693748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanda-boiler.com/d/files/katimurujuzot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98359193652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebiz.kr/userData/board/file/77499224101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeline-sports.com/files/file/vinivipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballmillfactory.com/d/files/lusijisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemnhapkhau.com/upload/files/41156858317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coconut.hu/userfiles/file/rupakavisudefotelowox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://negaratoto.com/contents/files/rupelavasuxiletosamuvig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8d64d9a03---befufew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslatalaia.com/userfiles/file/83820120105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/bogokuwivuzizurugejukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/darikexidijomuzuvukone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=android+studio+notepadPDF 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_off0000d807.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD807 17880 bytes
SHA-256: c2a834d011cee4cc9afab1ac7c0318e46abf8022ba188efce014c7cfc1877000
font_01_sfnt_off000106ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ec5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EC5 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 80fc09d607a70a6fcdf3c80516ee22e6ca65b72b1fb7e741394babee277c4910