Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5ebfba7451b5340…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:11:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: abb06e9742143c8f08e4a3562566813f SHA-1: d6e559274d7dc516cb89e088974ed68aa9aa1069 SHA-256: a5ebfba7451b534086c161c7b3eac24b846548cf764c04eaddeaa73eec93dcf1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are likely part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing or trojan PDF. The presence of external URIs and the link farm heuristic suggest this document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=xtream+tv+app+for+firestick PDF link annotation
    • http://riccaassociati.eu/userfiles/files/kefixarewimufumidelute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triyoga-tv.ru/userfiles/file/18998543957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsublimation.net/uploadfile/files/bamazolamupotuxuliwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at1apigroup3.com/contents/files/40182185710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotosvatba.net/userfiles/file/24814571299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpnovelty.com/upload/files/nobexepibenadawetepixox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sankaibearing.com/userfiles/files/36599167916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613327573f34d---xarigalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winstar-tools.com/UserFiles/editor/file/90036102256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/38844494260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlponder.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/57021761212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbexpertise.fr/catalogue_dynamique/file/66768587886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dff9ff35c447f4f966a08f926572b762/35787236792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.org/imagenes/file/77392825448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boston.pl/fck_pliki/file/52379859282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45910047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homecareangels.ca/files/files/files/29518055650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lafenicealcamo.it/userfiles/files/82233061880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhsuasolieu.com/media/files/52710601475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.casasemio.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kivabozabupifewadudanobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandervalk.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/22283406056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slide-bearing.com/d/files/setorilorosumusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.offshoreyachts.net/web_upload/editor/files/koseralanopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/namur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/movitopap.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_off0000c5b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5B1 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 6b42f9dab36f42fd79c5a7230a9921c1785b479a5cfd65f9f3d69d8d667048f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000de36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f648.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF648 17552 bytes
SHA-256: 90a219a2c46c4bf69d8ef2e5b6449a4ed831bf11e2ecf4262dfcb8bdbd7c95cc