Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ed96c2e5cfd47ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-24 20:26:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 0276ee58d001bc024a4869b508418d51 SHA-1: ba0a525bb3d3bf53edea3bf5a7a014db1d932b63 SHA-256: 8ed96c2e5cfd47ec57a2839d5d40a1f3eb228f2074c50fb3e06de86d5b719d7b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was 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 disposable hosting and are used in a link farm pattern, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The PDF structure and the presence of external URIs strongly suggest it is used as a lure to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mayweather+vs+logan+stream PDF link annotation
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mudapuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://millinerandassoc.com/files/file/megisuzinolilewewakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aglogistics-bo.net/userfiles/file/36584512274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariomauracotti.it/userfiles/files/41814536205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skomi.ru/img/files/file/49519333984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citygclub.com/ckupload/files/34624100997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexpert.de/userfiles/file/70859484224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ebf46e5398---73402662374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plise.org/userfiles/file/wefisewozerunugimuriregot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/89044128655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents/files/gigezemoxuwufedujaxenev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flairpens.ru/uploads/files/sowadonemalogajoruxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qian-ho.com/upfiles/editor/files/28788710380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-a0dcf319a153.breakthroughsport.com/userfiles/files/55028813792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturpix.ch/cmsimages/file/82531503510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geobigoni.it/userfiles/files/kiwemofozekulanazujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/531mckmsfe63s5dqu4gng902vb/84494701231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itagqatar.zajeltel.com/itag/file/files/1707652695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lehnerkom.de/images/uploaded/file/96566906548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk4education.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34050728481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosaicopeoplecorporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44115768508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipro.ma/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/lelubaweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ruchya.com.tw/upload/files/rofafawizogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okzawidow.pl/img/upload/files/19988024929.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_off0000af1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC731 14684 bytes
SHA-256: f1092b630742f7cd96dea1ffdfcb7992a62810ce4204824cd6bb2a0e0c81effd
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF1 10720 bytes
SHA-256: a0b707cf8d0b1e78bb930c95ffaa9d2d194c418dfed63a12f3f58b6f3e4a5352