Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93b8ce94991a09a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:44:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 82571d2e97c0ff968765a53fdc38870e SHA-1: 259220c2ad0ce5fe6856f225d29e027db1940117 SHA-256: 93b8ce94991a09a3c18fe605696bb15cd550838fd5ab5eb782e95b9ae1bfd1fd
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are algorithmically generated and hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious content, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack by directing users to potentially malicious PDF files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+master+key+to+riches+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images/fck/file/sutexemafuzurusemoruwipaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saint-party.com/media/file/zutesewenim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamlaocai.vn/webroot/img/files/29219305794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161450d9c2d8c6---bazonixozepopisot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weldingplaza.com/files/file/judejapebipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/74016907814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/rogenanikefuzabawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rugekubemekoroguzizefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/zowumosamupolizadukutaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qzgj.cn/upload/file/vufos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/53228507838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nidi.mk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99547476300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariosanfrancesco.com/userfiles/files/72235184676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drddvichitra.com/userfiles/file/11191603444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/25106999814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unibel.pl/pliki/upload/file/tadusikimoxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/83806483018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/lexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonnenheizung.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/buturirimoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/wodegeveki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzwep.com/img/file/202199235019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terwaarde.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85776618772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mami-m.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/jogorufaruzilazajufam.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_off0000d32c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD32C 10904 bytes
SHA-256: f5fd8d1132a785502869ba1801576b8fa67deed436dd2846ac637c6e2b7ad506
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC7D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001048f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1048F 17872 bytes
SHA-256: 156ff4ab511ebe05175d4d4209da0f8bbfcf01fc070f2c2a09b2f9d4f0ac6679