Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ba15488cf2e0dde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 04:53:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 4c1bbf0f40416bb203fc6daba49c05ab SHA-1: 4a2ec6f4cbd4089573e14a85a2291a7cc2116abe SHA-256: 9ba15488cf2e0dde5b490fb5d56b399bcb184d6f311282b4be475f200a599cc0
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, including a link farm on disposable hosting, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically points to a tactic of using numerous small, distinct links to obscure the true malicious destination, which is further supported by the 'PDF_URI' finding pointing to a URL with a 'ghost recon apk' UTM term, a common lure for game-related malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ghost+recon+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://selidbe-beograd.info/files/74591155872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bonigavijezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailygameresult.com/editor/UserFiles2/files/samoxawedosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirsanov-maslo.ru/uploads/9880605469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9494aa6ac86dd618ca110365868a80c/sadevebotamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phukienbep.net/media/files/giwigavawefiwixatisufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantage.ee/media/contents/file/16614626487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tylbm.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/lipuwefekafijusama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaziogluenerji.com/images_upload/files/mexamofawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202109171157494127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refakatci.net/userfiles/file/wememaxulajutewupave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/40187602720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/94450544343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74474734288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/17762053188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nocleginaplus.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/juxizememozanokononot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/suxojed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posetili.ru/userfiles/file/10234053822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pre-www.bridge-academy.com/uploaded/ckeditor/files/21400970493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotcomtravelegypt.com/userfiles/files/muzazojudefodezefugopin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legyenegyjonapod.hu/userfiles/files/nupanede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/nebimekewas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intersat.lv/files/file/24872836793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupopiscis.com/upload/files/logaretoparijewemakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltic-rt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67818380793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralcogtc.com/uploads/file/gokamituxunuvudovusis.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_off0000cf4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF4E 10464 bytes
SHA-256: aa597f6c3cdb6030d47606fa9ed26348e0c669b50cbae06d56dbf601c01b071f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e717.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE717 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 03eec706ea5144461df289267088398bf9ece529041c819441e66b7828122336
font_02_sfnt_off0001128c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1128C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1