Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f0d245e0cb81629…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-10-10 08:53:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 7b0caf9e7534b920d7dc7a7d163e8372 SHA-1: 288675d9556250860f1a793d6667f8280250e5a4 SHA-256: 8f0d245e0cb816297c6ef84c16a2ba3fa6061f21bc52e5e98864f275f1b71c46
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which are associated with disposable hosting and UTM parameters, suggesting a phishing or link-farming scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=difference+of+could+would+and+should PDF link annotation
    • https://paintingwithapassion.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/25463291515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongxoanhdpe.vn/upload/files/33198225419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanglong.vn-greenenergy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/femekatibunefuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triatlonbizuterie.cz/sites/default/files/file/razaselesapab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehedgerowchronicles.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/88487109226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamso1.net/uploads/files/dikurevulotovitanilide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/36665583950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16162302eed8e5---72154991884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/58401263830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/gidetotalodobamuvudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korsorlampang.net/user_img/files/86451043522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otpetye.com/images/shared/file/lenupamujixepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614403f4dc3cd---mumedoditemevoresasoxuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tyrtaios.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38646061317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blondel-bois.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fibufagegesaderojono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polishedskincare.com/minaret/uploads/file/tezomubasimisagofabesil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosg.net/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20211009202519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inunekocp.jp/mailmagazine/upload/files/14678776997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stjconsulting.it/userfiles/files/virij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazetavk.ru/img/file/18417666671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giorgimpianti.com/userfiles/file/68167284726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archpiudue.com/userfiles/files/pikugojofafewunopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20211002200321176.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_off0000de95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE95 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 91e0b5a171dd63d4e5040851c95bb85e17165d4961cbf742fe1bdaab50e399f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F0A 19740 bytes
SHA-256: f92b6e18e708796f87bcc344174e3d227b3dfcabded47cc23ee92ef0e83ff618