Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1ba2c98243903ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 16:21:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e7487fc2170fe35eb78d0f849a5e2b38 SHA-1: dc3949aca4509a7c6f183131a4ddc3683830c108 SHA-256: a1ba2c98243903adeb060234202b08f481ada61e7b9b4dccf95b26e604ad41e2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are part of a link farm, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/nozokezaliwegafawuvisiv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/sodusuzinoxanidonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbriz.ru/userfiles/file/26102323484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sambometal.com/dataroom/file/dorawopijoraveresowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents/files/82850548879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topimmigrationlawyer.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12533706229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.nl/userfiles/file/34441850465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dsami.org/uploadfilefiles/fopevulevupowiraken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xsteelstock.com/d/files/ruwitokosojipab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etnorom.hu/pictures/68261515594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/91968040520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongzzang.com/userfiles/file///63747772090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/83190166718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4d8242e66278d199505328e4a619b42/24164596527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/86748246063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiemhoamo.tiemhoahaibara.com/data/dulieu/files/tawid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/75271798712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b9978eae0---53881973694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopadive.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52453072719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://philly.drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/dixurewurilevalopusupaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daglichtfilters.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30671479958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210908145953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/91313408252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/liwobevur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/woxagevitobutanomezixapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=signing+naturally+units+7-12+pdfPDF 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_off0000bb57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB57 10968 bytes
SHA-256: c3328237a96ed80e19864b1d138afd070347b3d27ec7beb2152e22d7a99e3069
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF6 17016 bytes
SHA-256: d26c8664b83bf0c209e02c5c1ccf56f06cff7f9ef9ca8612f7c8dc016746dc46