Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ebf0871892f154a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 14:01:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c285f54b9a863e89dae97835dae9f5b3 SHA-1: 01adf4042d518478614fcd3f663f1c1242d852d7 SHA-256: 8ebf0871892f154a2bde4159cdca174b6309f25a801970addc3feee350e2d5f2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are likely part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests these URLs are used to redirect users, potentially to phishing sites or malware download pages. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://yasacompany.com/upload/files/wuwivakekoragiluter.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://topbondtape.com/uploadss/file/24153619268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/devomuxuluwoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hetodon.com/fckeditorfiles/file/43751712916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161443e540cb93---32178004896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenflameenergy.com/userfiles/file/vujaludawufebowedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atsolution.org/userfiles/file/20210914054657352767943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/wopusozuxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/malurab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cu-mbc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35141048982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.smartfutureexpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoxabaguximipil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insuralead.com/userfiles/file/73525641795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosl.com/upload/editor/file/dokeriwubetapesolema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzcil.com/uploadfile/files/pafotemuzewexininod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galaxyjewel.cn/uploadfile/files/36087487603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/69594479822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourgans.org/userfiles/files/97945002601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacola.com/upload/files/vurebanazosabumazajuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/tefabema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/pibaladanigape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnc21.com/files/fckeditor/file/3183355756146f88a6320d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langfordfinancialservices.com/userfiles/files/44756592433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karinameal.ru/imgdish/files/56642273175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614473676b98c---rijatejaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giyimkent.formenemlak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/34800602336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/zeliredugodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oembag.com/uploads/files/202109071329112205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=90210+season+1+episode+1+123moviesPDF 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_off0000de85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f69c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF69C 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 85d54900fa7702cf2c0a3176935676e630ac1c42fd457b655f016703d8b0ba95
font_02_sfnt_off00010ff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FF6 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 93222770217f60d17e2c8f7bfeb5fa6b4b081ef82d83c6f9565b82e7d62e9eb0