Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b8568136e166261…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 10:53:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f15bf5dede80aeb77b6ca5e3d198ede5 SHA-1: deb4c0079af7f9528ce07768aceb15c1753532e4 SHA-256: 9b8568136e16626170218f70dd8dabbd458a645e8465aac84102f2a83731b844
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to various PDF files. The presence of a 'download button' lure and numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://skonasystems.com/userfiles/file/80179959502.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://discus-rus.ru/upl/file/37327599650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/99045025952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kstraders.com/userfiles/file/kewajujezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/botesepogokopuzopoweli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moyaexpresss.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dapag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicissiapiemonteisa.it/userfiles/files/73050712521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolninskayahotel.com/userfiles/file/42837648324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razredna-nastava.net/files/59830154519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosadistanciayonline.com/medios/files/9391551255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images/fck/file/piket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210906163091581545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/zaregebekodexesek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/74303863336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streetnn.ru/data/upload/ck/files/febexere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/giraxaverupuliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/livemukojavavagivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowagon.it/userfiles/files/befipesewokorijufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacientes.quiroser.com/UserFilesQUI/file/55497352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etkenkalip.com/files/39090576363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wdnederland.nl/file/85815095243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137692065b0e---12223713296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents/files/jatalolis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/bovalikimavaxifuporaxija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-jia.com/uploads/files/202109032121403761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podiummagazinenews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71920421743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamalcar.com/userfiles/file/74463217137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=penguin+tamil+movie+download+tamilrockersPDF 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_off0000e1d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D7 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 76db162f770e378810e0779ff8d6c71d8d75e8ee9c1f60b29f795e44c3142d2f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB77 17792 bytes
SHA-256: a38fe81196bdb1bfe962150baa2c0cb4f138e5822841fb4d93b157bb69c2fb15
font_02_sfnt_off000128f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1