Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9607ebe4c296cef3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-10-08 12:17:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: fef2e85c6016627fbb936ce88ddb3cb1 SHA-1: 2f804a023b5bffbd466ce72a5c0703dd2e9b75b2 SHA-256: 9607ebe4c296cef34477180b62e003a1d0fc994a9952d8b4bebfbcbbcfdd536b
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. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URI heuristics and the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS firing strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=acne+on+chin+and+jawline PDF link annotation
    • http://chinalabware.es/d/files/xafugamiberukuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiancfea.org/userfiles/file/titekadabotaxakikure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekejozsef.eu/FCKfeltoltott/file/45607205263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-stroi76.ru/userfiles/file/37364673242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reflita.lt/uploads/files/komosuvozana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godahoian.com/app/webroot/upload/files/8911933835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/zinopusuzuwidopurez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fnathservices.com/upload/file/94864512330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rwd.webseo.tw/upload/files/lukegifigam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parafiasadkowice.pl/pliki/fikonifujuwude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wangwangcamp.com/uploads/files/202110011018104611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/11693271570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210925233102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelbilet.ru/sites/default/files/file/sizenusekukuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tillyardci.com/userfiles/file/22698625439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indago-rovigo.it/userfiles/files/10487705286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gradn.ru/uploades/fckeditorfile/56612459241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/26079203771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginecologmuresan.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95934229668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hideab.se/tc/Mediagalleri/file/85939441606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanlivin.lu/userfiles/files/47739183599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kapefashion.com/files/files/29101022824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/63921154099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c115756f1---55734638907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaabrahaoosta.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95552867138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laflammerouge.ch/userfiles/files/duvibifi.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_off0000cbff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBFF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE411 16564 bytes
SHA-256: beff4804480f7cf695c8cf646e8e9f5fa03a1c07e2d9ce90368435785f2c5fc4
font_02_sfnt_off00010e1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E1F 10300 bytes
SHA-256: c65ca9af07c9bdb01d45a5b509870dfd1d5f6094a8937f46b1c89d7d0a5ce137