Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a79341aebdbaabe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-09-27 12:03:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 66896f0766e885d8aedbc2cec58fd781 SHA-1: 37f7ddb5f90426d48fe4493327d8f9cf8d9cb9d5 SHA-256: 8a79341aebdbaabe3d0b03b44438c7f79280cc7ff0ff0c308c7af6d1ec6f1e10
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded links, with 25 distinct hosts identified, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URIs and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://xtremefitksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23912532206.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a182cd57f748042a287222c3c59bd6d2/93446714808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/7261929897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/powivemaxigejowipokiboguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pecsimutargygaleria.hu/files/file/50682476663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/losazikawalifanuzige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easypayindia.in/userfiles/file/21094779178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aillant-sur-tholon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pugimikemade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pereplanirovkaoblast.ru/pict/file/9355238536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tosadipumodaponisupibuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30790b89c07c62beca1229ba8de483da/41545811717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cornaredo.gattinonimondodivacanze.it/themes/userfiles/files/fefurasumesogirojupusel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landpas.pl/upload/file/69816091367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/25744659494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourconn.com/userfiles/file/202109020053076315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hai-bi.com/uploads/files/202109101231491821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwm-quanta.com/upload/files/suvubofidusejuwebeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/1330902723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deaprogettazioni.it/userfiles/files/34006097413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmacfashion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jepofafudapakuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/rebotopivosoxesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearspace-design.com/CKEdit/upload/files/vijexilaxejawipemafosaros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsospice.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/dabuwuwokemujezurilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210904195631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneramato.com/userfiles/files/bumofur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=game+ppsspp+captain+tsubasaPDF 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_off0000b085.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB085 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c89c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC89C 10548 bytes
SHA-256: db26c29307155e978f2e1473c62e8768ffa966d8e06de8877980ce0f1e49a681
font_02_sfnt_off0000e06c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06C 14912 bytes
SHA-256: b00b6e1db93d36a88ec1691ea12ee85aee9fd6364a3f48afbd3e2a7ae18eb4ae