Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a4596e4f163e7bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-24 22:27:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 93510bfa099c6c4f1f5a0d6df87464f2 SHA-1: e14269369069dbbdc5fdeb1aad819e07b82627fc SHA-256: 8a4596e4f163e7bfb02e505fcca0b0f72cae27db15e0e5c3f0523384220d44b6
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, with several heuristics indicating a link farm on disposable hosting and algorithmically generated URLs. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or to serve a second-stage payload. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates redirection to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://upbilbao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kepimejajek.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://home-plast.ru/foto/files/konivawonegozuvedamadofot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devcons.org/uploads/userfiles/files/narunegij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superiorservicesandsolutionsfl.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/29912297903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgcaregiver.org/contents/files/fepefinadedukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1ai/files/file/zuxobowikipoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://navoloki.mebel18.com/uploads/files/25025661463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/925ccf6449b28806feb447d70589ce9c/fobazasudaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testplanet.nl/uploads/files/bizemabadarubimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/29706428363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xiremefulogakajapolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnpair.com/userfiles/file/makuruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oiseaubleu-promo.fr/userfiles/file/nazejidixezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomisszio.hu/tmp/sakinikexemonuroli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/pozosasapekefoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morrisjones.co.uk/EditorImages/file/faxigupogawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bozoklar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/febosupavibototekokizev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcimx.com/files/37764189154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktor-tv.de/sites/default/files/file/mezoxige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telliogluhukuk.com/userfiles/file/gusugarofukazobedodak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merrygoldholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zumiratemegesekerakureneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shellserva.nl/docs/Image/file/71109668002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubslotalmatriche.com/calcas/file/lelagozitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalqwerty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38050022443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unicorn-furnitures.com/d/files/xekejexurofakuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrspk.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dirimin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/potiwibedevumarizif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=hsmtmts+episode+1+watch+onlinePDF 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_off0000b200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB200 15384 bytes
SHA-256: b22d12137a488b7f088e37fb54e8f86e3e21085a1f905f10c6bd581f9d571904
font_01_sfnt_off0000d77e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD77E 10808 bytes
SHA-256: b4c0b07a98d6e71c801e0bc6481fc991dfa1095ce7517bf33784d6954ff8a745
font_02_sfnt_off0000f048.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF048 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1