Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c43cbbd02ad8538…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:48:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c2d93c3f472155bb6fe96dec61b8eb5f SHA-1: f86c5ad52a52a573968cd8fc16a96d6022b6d719 SHA-256: 8c43cbbd02ad85385bf8632ad898e76db9c711131ff814f24fb12887d9e62bfc
134 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 presence of numerous external URLs, many pointing to PDF files hosted on disposable domains, suggests a link farm or phishing campaign. The 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=poco+x3+pro+super+wallpaper PDF link annotation
    • http://st-communications.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66414269188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/pobojizegukaxevutudeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cke.hk/userfiles/rupunifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mstreatmentadvances.com/userfiles/files/23621970858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6871766dc212fde808a6e6ae20746f4c/jenezivugaxovawuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ri0l0d507f8vo4pvqucpe6hjhk/didezobije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichgiahy.com/upload/file/89713706061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasco-ye.com/uploads/file/6084713753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/xibosusojozuvawixidag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teewer.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12668562336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laatuwhuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/wugabegatifixevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/rewuwisinitozopasuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lazovesiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitree.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56503395428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17311895404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puisan.ru/uploads/file/bikodur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alhurwallpaper.com/Files/files/52274959776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzsabegi60szallo.hu/UserFiles/File/51260824555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/9444401381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euskararenginkana.eus/files/galeria/files/74007453841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://surupaceanu.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38987306402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijn-nederland.nl/userfiles/file/darugilebumoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastcoastbiker.de/sites/default/files/file/bowegitupozilanod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/noxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedooverseas.com/userfiles/file/bubopuvagetibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e94f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE94F 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 0b1586ea7fb73885a0e6184a56f6f70c7ddb8c55465a27d6aa2b10a31d8a2205
font_01_sfnt_off0001019c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1019C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000119ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119AE 18352 bytes
SHA-256: c54cc3ccded68aaf0b44c23e8b0f5fcdda6449354562c1cd684dc962a3723e1b