Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 893a8d63a023fbdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-10-02 09:07:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: acafea9853b5e222fd1ab6b40cba6d37 SHA-1: b5e911bc6b67ca391a38f6098982218f9025b729 SHA-256: 893a8d63a023fbdc64787c17c003178182f48a527f92f18a96dcf2b342c3c929
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Numerous external URLs are embedded within the PDF, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=saraswati+health+and+physical+education+class+12+pdf+in+english+free PDF link annotation
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/xovezupatobevaxafovezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idea-web.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/84845339806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairfresh.net/assets/admin/ckeditorimage/files/13728982687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medius.sk/userfiles/file/muxowuregutuvosexefux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/30207370323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togelunited4d.com/contents/files/33913945899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegrelli.it/userfiles/files/junukubajupamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/rovedobukoxonibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84576273440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincesorvarshop.hu/editor_up/rakemigexafewewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161509b4571c25---15806361003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igs.compcierge-asia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19823696275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/fuludolafuradorivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phubozena.pl/userfiles/file/28432250005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/52098493999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talaa-obour.com/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/46874945013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.akilciilacdernegi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64899158216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsaneeraus.fi/userfiles/files/jurenuzalosajori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhang.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/76157143090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/muzibakufumileza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seltec.io/images/uploads/files/18031887105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodeslaboratori.eu/userfiles/files/zinudusajiferakazikax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/026a65e72695ed391eaf7a67f3abb49c/72431621003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projekt-lesen.de/userfiles/file/nonure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togelunited4d.com/contents/files/88517921097.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_off0000bf39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d750.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD750 11444 bytes
SHA-256: cf09bc96f168597b0b2a314477932372c04229275078dabbf61170ce1bd829f6
font_02_sfnt_off0000f239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF239 19468 bytes
SHA-256: c0159c4a12452d3296461345325000f1e0eb78e7b2b7ecb0ac01c74252d6db20