Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e8a332e697df504…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.1 KB Created: 2021-09-09 08:56:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 30747bfbe5ccf6c2cd3fba301584a881 SHA-1: cdf958ac405a4430bdcef6037c7966dfbd375613 SHA-256: 8e8a332e697df504a28ea294764c4aa8dd227d9d2cb2751ab64ad7fc44fb65ae
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to host a large number of links on disposable domains, likely for redirecting users to malicious sites. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous unknown URLs points towards a campaign involving external resource access.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b27b36f12b1594805b52906c482ded47/39253017574.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cen7dias.es/userfiles/files/nulejofoneziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/kelotigiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xsteelstock.com/d/files/dawebutososogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/nixozejuwozewad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yukkumpulgroup1.com/contents/files/binabasuzowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olech-rzeszow.pl/userfiles/file/14514354922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tamixozoberobubamaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naitikfashions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4478137149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/fuvoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71866c4504cba30f949e51a78f8f633f/gizujelireguvubisimitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guerrazzi.info/userfiles/files/10749010312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://negaratoto.com/contents/files/760758007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritran.vn/uploads/news_file/93625216775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roland-toys.eu/userfiles/file/1878551136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grancom.by/upload/docs/19212448075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiw.bibliotekalesmierz.eu/img/upload/files/25572768576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinismbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/jimuxuxarutulogagij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/27971801308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161385466dab94---38678872037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drivingschool-brno.cz/files/files/88056147962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theurbanthinktank.com/files/20091146338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ytdrive.com/CKEdit/upload/files/9136606298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/fedekisojanazaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=online+android+studio+emulatorPDF 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_off00011f01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F01 18044 bytes
SHA-256: 24b006139d106578c1626759917eb6df9d389dcc9b519df16d4278d63207a147
font_01_sfnt_off00014e48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001665f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1665F 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 575f90ee1ef2ce1a1cfccaf332773bdf8867379d18a75a227d18262eec093f2e