Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f2bb00079a31562…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:58:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 010bd8753cb4e2599ad7923cd3eb0a52 SHA-1: 62ea9daf02fa87e0b6920e7d3f21d5476b5a2ee9 SHA-256: 8f2bb00079a31562d4016596647fae29c1bb702b2cf5abfc0b28bc90a4125648
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to PDF files on various domains, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically highlights the use of disposable hosting and UTM parameters, common in phishing or malware distribution campaigns. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns strongly suggest it's part of a phishing or malware delivery chain, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://karlschool.org/uploads/files/202109030951162245.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hftyby.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909150627912385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montesantangelo.it/files/files/40032406417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/riwurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/butuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413aa7afb98---86759005143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portaldeaquidauana.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42116125986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afritransport.com/app/webroot/files/file/dikowagebixozav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckysim.com/userfiles/file/timabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dogathermalhotel.com/resimler/files/zumoxugaruzajazivuxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikra-ekb.ru/files/fckeditor/file/76601637670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bc-arman.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62916689071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiuman-hk.com/images/file/47391155597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theartofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuloverulijusokad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etkenkalip.com/files/seduxidixefonivoxewukilus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilsports.ro/userfiles/file///pabusagugawoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/rorenesadofevuzitonup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aasghsflqsae.handylover.com/upload/files/40360384616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gpe-el.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vifoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtdsbinhthuan.vn/public/uploads/userfiles/file/mazazijedisuwirolinadab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbabaajmdfbk3ddf3azka3b6a2r.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46694386229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c13b625ac---23475546789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mq-water.net/upload/vofelefabagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/87095276044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=tekken+5+game+free+download+for+android+mobile+apkPDF 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_off0000ed85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED85 18048 bytes
SHA-256: 007175c66d9ec3a329f3030c49146778f43587ec9fe4231f8121a1ef700cbcf4
font_01_sfnt_off00011c34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C34 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 9410b9abf558a2dd0a5225de3273f6db254138f0244f3c28c983f17814c093e3
font_02_sfnt_off00013551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13551 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1