Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0654e1fbfeb8294…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 05:31:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 1fca15f3a81b92bc1f350b20a6db2820 SHA-1: d568faba071a676d9b895d2fa670457d11ec1a58 SHA-256: a0654e1fbfeb8294707d972d3d48db6e17b668b5a90806937cedb46a3494245c
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains and forming a link farm, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards exploitation or redirection to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://kingbakerypans.com/userfiles/file/jizodulil.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nikunjfoundation.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zogiwamosakebes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-aqua.fr/ressource/site-image/files/83709060058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/27138281309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rt-totaalafbouw.nl/userfiles/file/fapasurivirogupezidoguril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/vivomevedemodusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suncitygroup.ir/basefile/suncitygroupir/files/30277724276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motovelo-nmsk.ru/userfiles/file/koraxodego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1498df061---gupafuluvoletezasoguse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesomenoise.hu/upload/file/99768958431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c6b507e19f5c064cc40af64baf18e03/34643791304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://state-lithium.com/upload/files/67365464744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/68248429472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://on-call-anatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lixarusixubesoziwunuxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jipenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.twibiotech.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89646775802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.com/_data/images/file/wutilovifizanoxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valaisconsulting.ch/file/potovevirurovokapuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flyingkirin.com/uploadfiles/file/031959242368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/ferasenazawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/4885635033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=the+cay+by+theodore+taylor+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://louisiana-arts.org.s150269.gridserver.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/jewugukiz.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_off0000d2bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ead2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD2 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 5994f272749eea4c2b5ea0896a174513dd33d71fd9c3ad72d57cc73c73cdcec8
font_02_sfnt_off000102df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102DF 18520 bytes
SHA-256: e10edbaf8dc8645a9a8f67ace61576673dfe5cbbdd9f4730446e9eece46583ab