Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9808ab703f477099…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 15:08:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4655e8b47a3ea20997e07fd560296dab SHA-1: 5c2f741e68d4d3949e42a7c306c6346246674a32 SHA-256: 9808ab703f4770992957e26447fb5bec5531d8c15a921662c5ef8bdd0e3801f5
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to host numerous links on disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the nature of the link farm heuristic point towards the document facilitating malicious redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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 http://flex-link.cn/uploadfiles/files/92051929017.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/xozudolizexekupumaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsospice.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/mijozavokafekakujuzexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resttour.com/images/userfiles/files/16748522571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippinnudon.com/uploads/files/fisesugivuvosima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noventa.cz/media/files/file/12981950911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanlongland.com/upload/files/57762491625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroservice-eg.com/userfiles/file/85082870893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yomadesign.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/23883608096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdcmd.com/data/files/45891335413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classoft.ro/userfiles/file/53696913778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/bolirijimuver.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://cuacuonductudong.com/upload/files/sisapeve.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://ventilatoryzlin.cz/images/file/wufegimin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.net/contents/files/fiwanoboxogojupujawezev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/xibuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isagrinio.gr/userfiles/zuzamosipemibiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qian-ho.com/upfiles/editor/files/57056102471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f302364fa41db835f1cd6c4a2def4fec/33320429231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tupnate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62399527569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.77ice.com/upload/files/xibakimuruziwutudobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auswallendorf.de/userfiles/file/19109227814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classoft.ro/userfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=virtual+tennis+challenge+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_off0000b51d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB51D 18676 bytes
SHA-256: 5cd0a53cacf4a624fcc0273ae556e3f4ef58073ad7aed4dd2d45b458af066788
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F8 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 90b338e6f2e437d762f1fed690580cdf9498fbc5de8c2a680ed95fadd997dd86
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1