Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ba5c3878dd6daa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 19:50:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 14f52e79945e5efddd0709141cca074d SHA-1: a1ed1e652f4cc3505d0ae5f0eb78807cf0cba5c6 SHA-256: 8ba5c3878dd6daa97dcdb729454cfa4b5340555f3b6c80124828b6b182828c17
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's part of a phishing campaign or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://yousefmaktabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77793422455.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dongtienlamnghiep.com/upload/file/pujuvanajisivalaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210907140730081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/29232613161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/bofubefuzuwonepuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4jclgr8nnb0bam1dlsatmk6i6/31757732898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.hssanesteban.cl/files/68000209678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/matenivobilizev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetruck.gr/images/file/24539868379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97276974755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/kuwexamemalunob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/88700020512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/tifiwanezujunudikusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eg-connect.com/uploads/editorfiles/file///22185631618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/wejebovezuwojexasubosak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/40881334425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/zitadonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sassanoproperties.com/FCKeditor/file/fefawagetewapila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/17136774169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topaslt.com/userfiles/file/960697019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ladesevuropizamowinagemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tnmkor.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_54202A8A568B2AD5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alliance-bio.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/3141360071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f09bbb7de9---35643255325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=transfer+files+from+iphone+to+android+wirelesslyPDF 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_off0000e1c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1C5 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 72aa9c6a3e96d665987054a3fe3e7a0b82d364d07c974eca867899a0c087a625
font_01_sfnt_off00010f28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001273f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1273F 10924 bytes
SHA-256: e34e2798ed99edaca5dad12fdbd5b4aa00fc3d954ebedcb878f15f9827455863