Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88f1a2ee9e986ddb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 21:26:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1d9c9a21bd74c2c5aa6241bdba75a3c6 SHA-1: 426ef8075c81b6e20d454a032423759a76b49369 SHA-256: 88f1a2ee9e986ddbb65a398058527c7edd238f9ea74b87e5ddc3f4b9ea5c653b
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. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to a link farm, indicating an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. The presence of external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=developer+tools+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://toliveinchristjesus.ceosale.catholic.edu.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/relimakozodapiroval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osheamaloneynylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lunesixewezuvuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrenickels.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83723776395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354cf922f1d---mujexukobakikekuwufubazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwrapcarspa.com/upload/files/xubixodafixiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhhangvien.com/upload/files/tegodevuzovuwovevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podushka.by/files/files/75113439174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastadimatteo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54837663775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4930060518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/759939124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamjagolla.com/uploads/files/viserazisagarozeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62862363962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hevolta.com/upload/file/wijowukomajawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/podobojona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renewone.de/files/8223994543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c2da978df9ae474dba6e8295fc34c59/60259219426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullprotec.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48218247612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kabaretyimpresariat.pl/Upload/file/doderulevaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fornacedelia.it/userfiles/files/49734734784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minuspk.ru/minuspk.ru/userfiles/file/69695778733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionasset.net/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210909104923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akconta.com/uploads/files/61532173927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blueoak.fr/image/file/wavefowimamuwulovasexer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nickelmarket.co.za/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23522270045.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_off0000c0dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0DD 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 9e4dd2007063db9dbf3badd9aae6fb5f4110298c6f8f3492548a5ee13ec1154c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED55 10208 bytes
SHA-256: 7e1df473956f32bd15eb694cf6d8bf3d002812b01bcf7996de8f5e5b6b282eff
font_02_sfnt_off00010473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10473 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1