Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fa3ac04a0615af3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:56:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a58cd4099bbcb89ebf779b30262e6ecd SHA-1: de9c855a301b3c70cf7cf5cf0746a384e5eb7cf8 SHA-256: 8fa3ac04a0615af36d38245d6dda204ff99ed31dde15c7fc5f545d23f1980226
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly supports this, indicating the PDF is designed as a link farm on disposable hosting. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adult+apk+downloader PDF link annotation
    • http://thanhnienxp.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/29896791607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcockeysville.com/uploads/files/99364593321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilafafafa.com/shopadmin/upload/files/68959470721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhvuongthuphap.com/upload/ck/files/78008971885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finchamauto.com/pics/ziguzusetiwagoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agencement-menuiserie-var.fr/stockages/files/60538133598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immo-macedo.lu/userfiles/files/22975538819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenetpost.mn/userfiles/files/kokajodanive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e3edu.vn/public/ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.phppublic/uploadsfiles/kopawaveletesarotavesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitishahjahanpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ff42904c8cff55bb870336612d56ba7/jegomosenine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/28457110255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bytip.net/filespath/files/20210905130905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svatba-emi.com/uploads/pages/files/99866661517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmeticdermatologymiamibeach.com/uploads/data/files/bivodiginiropizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casadko.fr/userfiles/file/49882393544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prakashirrigation.com/uploads/fck/files/loloxilujemefeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vubifateburu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmrh.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/11535829346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/99022026203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/21354984958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salondumariagededijon.com/userfiles/file/35842117843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerastar.com/userfiles/file/39650629739.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_off0000daa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA6 18336 bytes
SHA-256: 97f7b995687fd6531710b7dd0d33676bb4f618283691c0404565db6dc12b5dd6
font_01_sfnt_off00010a6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A6D 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 8f14e6b5abcc738302c0ca5a045461268e8a2077e2c8190460b81757859d4017
font_02_sfnt_off00012227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12227 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1