Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0aee18aa63d0797…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:42:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ee39835a3ae6d1479959ccec186acbb8 SHA-1: b0d89006548bdd708f338154b11c897adfb98b04 SHA-256: a0aee18aa63d079751fcb365959a7b886720cb2093fa346a7a1a92e03a29d8ec
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 pointing to PDF files on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of PDF malware often involves JavaScript for exploitation or redirection, hence T1059.007 is included.

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 http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/regolokosu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://exhibitionchannel.com/upload/34710753517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cavice.fi/tiedostot/files/14988431191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knauto.com/upload/file///vurifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsite.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/7478375185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandirent-new.ru/uploads/assets/file/87962922240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/29331344544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/57927891283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161445681b7ed3---93849428086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logo4you.dk/userfiles/file/wefolekojesedomabakaduboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamolenasnc.it/userfiles/files/13545334078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopguepes72.fr/userfiles/file/kamuwupitefedipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubk-sad.de/azubi/userfiles/files/pabipal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.campacinter.com/image/upload/File/kavekofoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatagz.com/uploadfile/files/54377691320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eg-connect.com/uploads/editorfiles/file///85909774147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaemsp.org/upload/editor/file/32730253411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ahcjevtqq.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/minizujegolidezilapofig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oishisushigd.com/uploads/files/47530856983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmoscm.com/contents/files/12923752342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/gisusogugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://health-bridge.in/upload/file/19049470733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-br.ru/img/file/bepikop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archive-2014.humandoc.pl/attachments/file/jimixigudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a1114b607---41177224288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=i+too+sing+america+poem+themePDF link annotation
    • http://alessandrotria.altervista.org/areap/ckfinder/userfiles/files/regogibope.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_off0000c323.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC323 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 34a0b8d0f81e828a4376f63dce30ca8566b26f4b09c8d43e5c43d55c339caab8
font_01_sfnt_off0000db94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A6 16276 bytes
SHA-256: 304cfad1baf4925dcf97b5be40a127edbe412e15989f5dbd55dd5d18ac7fb537