Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c129f0997812b22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:47:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 945ffdd8d8d152e0ae32835bfb9223dd SHA-1: 6c1f44bfa6a9985099eeee5487df348f35bdb915 SHA-256: 8c129f0997812b223e329d4a97aea1fc25ed593cba0b5b3ff19cd9b92127be8f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external domains, many of which are likely part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' flag point towards a common PDF-based attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/fajusozotomusig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://becskeicsodajo.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/bagetasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-itos.net/admin/userfile/image/file/netodapewuxosupibuwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ritascreation.com/userfiles/file/87867923598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemingdecal.com/uploads/assets/file/14997713027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/weluxapoteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kammerchor-lindau.com/file/vamobok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.poolsrus.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/makegaraxabasesifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopdesign.nl/userfiles/file/54287542642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.igescanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60639852809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jasfec.com/imgs/uploads/lijizaregozumepeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christ-china.com/filespath/files/20210914060116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nachtruhe.info/up/files/denivute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezclasssites.com/var/wwww/dev-ezclasssites-com/data/files/63469948990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkm-market.net/userfiles/file/jovoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodybybodyology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mizabepaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherryontop.pl/upload/fotki/file/memovosiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijfbacknumber.com/editor_up/benijoxugabuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fq1mtpl0nhb8ihi9koveev1ps6/29359304855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvagcentr.ru/userfiles/files/tazekimufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzhero-sudzhensk.verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84882872676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kclandscapes.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/sofakol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yk-tech.com.tw/ckfinder/uploads/ckfiles/files/puwatusepulajovalixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmcoverseaspvtltd.com/uploads/files/nobejaxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=traction+pdf+gino+wickmanPDF 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_off0000ddcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDCB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5DD 19460 bytes
SHA-256: 739e08ac1ed363e437ec44e8223a09c50050e58993e1fbad98cc6aa4a11e0d16
font_02_sfnt_off0001280e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1280E 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 8b5c756cdff198551cdd2e08fc6af8c315ec963894a45398bf893aa8b868c173