Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3b6d76537d593d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 06:38:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e9d4bd1dc80d2a8a29d096d7f60f0ed8 SHA-1: 84ab768a449d7e70df3c5bfd078a2c96907457e2 SHA-256: a3b6d76537d593d10a28e53ea21852fe6fdbb5ebebb29d56957ca3f729e8d4c5
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of external links are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+firestick+remote+app+without+wifi PDF link annotation
    • http://ilink.pl/userfiles/file/kamutezuzokomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cochemical.com/upload/files/vojikoteke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safewatersolutions.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34257545756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjiangchem.com/upload/files/68980456261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scalping.ir/data/files/file/59692279786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertworker.paraleumarian.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/72638958742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1e7b70840---jafexijifajozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoekidsworld.com/userfiles/file/lozawagekiluda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aokunoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31778126874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hram-uspeniya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suregazibolivevugopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamhosting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bifogozagujisobuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangphatdanang.xetnghiemadndanang.com/uploads/image/files/wojigubezivexigafelud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jasfec.com/imgs/uploads/nifanilavipigapomuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saringkarnwood.com/UserFiles/file/wubelero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/11081563348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwm-quanta.com/upload/files/romubotekari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pastijptoto.com/contents/files/66964802753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.notusweb.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91157561637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montoaneli.com/ckfinder/files/23507017817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanticcompact.org/userfiles/files/72163563615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/37884575066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweddlefoto.com/files_contenidos/upload/files/betowagivimoremovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elard-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kibuzabugozegevazim.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_off0000f557.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF557 10864 bytes
SHA-256: f77a4f561447413745f6829f472632bc3d8d1c6e46833cf1a3f7bd5ff848e080
font_01_sfnt_off00010e8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E8D 19844 bytes
SHA-256: d7389819c78326f60ad701eb0111689d2bde5abb937d723cb216ea698f9b01c1
font_02_sfnt_off000142a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1