Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f555a968b56f646…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 14:55:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e4ae909fab92a35018e77b1814dd620a SHA-1: a6dadbb339e2389cc3458defd4fb8e03ab7cba96 SHA-256: 8f555a968b56f6460287cf722b95bc33cf9fc0cb04c62884e0733268641705ac
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically classified as a phishing trojan. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=video+bestand+kleiner+maken+android PDF link annotation
    • https://plagij.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4970411938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/68786913835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3rproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65310090006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p9p9hu0af68i34s6cvvlrt4vj0/78243732442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppe.everybodyisnotdoingit.org/gift/userfiles/files/seluxewivafajakotirinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koovappadyscb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37773181883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b53abfcb251e140b2bb86ef41881a8c/27245672576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sssmri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pisigumuvufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/83939509002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://il-gusto.com/images/file/12820584062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rolcsi-bau.hu/userfiles/files/gagogewulelaxekilufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-con.ru/upload/files/jixuteredeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekobonner.de/userfiles/file/befefavadelake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipekyolumedya.com/resim_galeri/file/niralanimapegeper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/60923387211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57144751251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kruengrangthai.com/files/files/mogave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locnuocvietmy.com/Images_upload/files/96169984776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/dugotizixoxeweluwulalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamicyunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60872433474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dehaventransportation.com/home/de/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/datewekisozevepavawupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarna-zapiekanki.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5028896804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/32192346700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gowowdeli.com/uploads/files/33070944219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-vostok.ru/userfiles/file/40526786065.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_off000134f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014d09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D09 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 564ac6b6d70a4b0feef1112bdc91a4c7b2a1789a4a4fcc43291f34727ef67d21
font_02_sfnt_off00016549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16549 18104 bytes
SHA-256: 4782a99dbcf26a5ed9891766f8aad0f0f242503a88175eb646d07032155b3b9b