Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e6889d7c4c670c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 14:46:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c8cfd00ed4a26a071c46b52d9b79337f SHA-1: 8ef24e013cfb9876fd1e0a257408357f9e4008ff SHA-256: 8e6889d7c4c670c552ca41f4e9aef53086a332b1534cf0f422f42f9ce4326b20
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the PDF format itself often leverage JavaScript for malicious actions, hence the inclusion of T1059.007.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9086

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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://eksternest.be/images/file/riduzawumazorekawu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://camdohungdung.com/upload/files/juluwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-uklid.com/files/file/zubetuposeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-communications.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57515144506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamboeng.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bobuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onsijsselstein.nl/userfiles/files/77066469832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ppfi-online.com/userfiles/file/41873018089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tornyanggrace.com/upload/file/ribavafabinivoropuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a802e7164f---97731431863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/rinesevilavifurakijaduxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankajplast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xilaverebezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/35064527668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atrax.hr/files/1619949888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/10546144359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmorshomecareassociates.org/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/donusugofikux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauroconsulting.pl/userfiles/file/digosaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/43121867622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/foxawexolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138719f1bca9---83470753500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrberanova.cz/userfiles/file/nigonotelumirawewab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pusuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cansuyu.org/resimler/files/33157326492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netichikawaya.com/userfiles/file/fiditikiburetemitatejoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaronandanthony.com/userfiles/files/tufobuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tixexeleduwulufizofugine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=android+csv+viewerPDF link annotation
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c6d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6D5 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 927066ac6b771a565400ef2eac65e0900a084af5a3126be97ad90bd3576397c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDD4 20304 bytes
SHA-256: 3277dc04a7620be1c24b26ad565ecad0d9832c296304b8c6224f3065df1e67aa