Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a456de4f76f8dafb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 15:12:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5075504a7063232df43037f8930e16ea SHA-1: f76e303507590dc73a00b80167094d9999d5e8b5 SHA-256: a456de4f76f8dafb22aa5f7f938cd4728fa70b46917fd2ace4638c721490cee3
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic and the high number of distinct hosts suggest a malicious intent, likely to distribute phishing content or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature.

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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mario+and+sonic+scene+creator PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--80aafbjcazdrhzgiddbbcsg4l.xn--p1ai/pict/file/75029959829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagakure.by/upload/editor/files/74748779934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25722514750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foreverymuslim.net/home1/forevev3/public_html/foreverymuslim/upload/file/bazubodopepexajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simon-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31773202783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleversystems.ru/userfiles/file/magosojabadazazedoginizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhocxuatnhapkhau.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/22499235241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/78967055501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exam10.menapoint.com/app/webroot/upload/files/foxubopidoliwatojawid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f3319d52fa---78874343033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangiorgioautoservizi.com/userfiles/files/91901378382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evaemlak.com/userfiles/file///76242877089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millionsdiscount.com/mo_images/files/tarakubixegazav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99398427165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/pevajenomof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tries.cz/media/images/upload/file/supovesajijubozilixux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unovosti.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muzipenovaburenofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quantri.thaisonpalacehotel.com/upload/files/soxafetinujadufelejezefet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--66-6kc8bfmkmjd.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xudedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsdbad4l5f147jjv03ops1cbcm/34760628869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamsankyo.com/Uploads/file/tuvijotolirovedotoleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mueblesgamez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96480043339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodykneadstherapy.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65389583588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanrun-it.nl/userfiles/files/91545564825.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_off0000c8f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8F2 16732 bytes
SHA-256: 4bd210d70dc1678db0cd46887c5ce4ecd1d4e1e8368cd378bdbc962fb03137b7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f47c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF47C 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 5410540c7f199a8f4604ca2a9bf1ff3eeaf920a6235323eba44ffe637246655e
font_02_sfnt_off00010bdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BDD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1