Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8be576c1e68bfbbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-23 08:55:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 71e05d6bc50dbea107e6576e999d3dd1 SHA-1: a75515173a4f382aa25791e5e217a3d662108ad9 SHA-256: 8be576c1e68bfbbbf8d6e22384afb71681feb8b9576a01e57e428a04bce763d6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly supports this, indicating the document's purpose is to host a large number of links on potentially untrusted domains. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://pristineleather.com/userfiles/file/lojawurad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ajej.pretty-match.com/upload/files/24333445725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easresidence.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/11455794834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitk.ru/_files/wuxogeluzajojokoterowek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614072a7c57db---56084736132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/47369428261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moretonassets.net/userfiles/49606590406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cf23d20bb1---31471450873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmoscm.com/contents/files/30532770767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukienmiennam.com/userupload/files/damitazatenisepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertermo.nl/userfiles/file/vawezoxudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twozonechickenlasvegas.com/uploads/files/tikofogolovuzimozosuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/98780811976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lobnya.ru/upload_picture/file/fuvogabofesozakinofizar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tskrea.com/userfiles/file/fifegejifavamujizijuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalcentral.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/6251650886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/danufurisanovide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dotekuvosekojajenosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artedeeducar.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96526786289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kccegis.com/upfiles/content/file/20210912065118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://museuminiaturesbesalu.com/files/33061578831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photofetimages.com/19952066100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photopoligrafic.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kotizapesuzovosaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=best+hd+movies+download+pc+tablet+hd+movies+mkv+480p+720pPDF 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_off0000e0d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0D1 18328 bytes
SHA-256: 7e89f45cc65fcaa36eab610c7de2040001a8459c26273f975cd1d259b0b10a86
font_01_sfnt_off000110e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110E6 11692 bytes
SHA-256: 1783db7f92d596c285798a60562c04a4772ed73c825c72df80a61ca83f44f695
font_02_sfnt_off00012c91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1