Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c91210564818cfd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 10:33:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 341176afbed969d5dba5a8c196af7838 SHA-1: 5d25b549d268a3d7d0b409efc91c382188355182 SHA-256: 8c91210564818cfdd9c71e9cd6b56c4c0230d87513e010d19b5280a56fbf009e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure and embedded content, while heavily obfuscated, are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://narellesastro.com/userfiles/files/werepelekakupewisegav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cw-cut.com/uploads/file/77761354925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/48908977745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rpsbchamber.org/editorData/file/35750054486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42313679836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osteopathe-montpellier-sud.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suzami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/25400680981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/gijufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d783ba7b82---35002885749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/userfiles/file/rilapojojolupoxuwinub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amongelite.com/ci/userfiles/files/4912317700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karolinanowak.com/userfiles/file/pexorinunukidevukawotuval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genia-groupe.fr/images/files/6291530848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/96662924050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd5a4319b5---mojedigadavunarip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapaliinsaat.net/file/79391309818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/57609439428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/93822398686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calendarsunrooms.com/userfiles/files/dikoziwolebozatiboro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tochuchoinghi.org/files/95322942022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismopontevedra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kawimipefikukuzevagusel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yujinpharma.com/upload/files/72157586087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/36794572533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=product+rule+derivative+examplesPDF 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_off0000d18e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD18E 10840 bytes
SHA-256: fabf93282ceb28fe280d7cd36fd367647d238a4ef4959b60d3d372d09c9ef4dd
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000102ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102BA 18980 bytes
SHA-256: f4b0b4e7d83acdedf9e536446fc4e122ca535458703c29e7ddf9c10e80137842