Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8688c3e1eb8a65b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-28 13:17:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9e663ba7f9d4410e4056ff070bb0f47e SHA-1: bbd7b0a745443006b51b5e0bc291a40a36774563 SHA-256: a8688c3e1eb8a65b995654f35be534d5992c4264ba105948682e2280c81cd940
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fef02a564f---vurowesovob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thebookmarkcafe.com/uploads/files/ximapulovole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51489838654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoga-privates.com/yoga-privates/file/97260194241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georeno.ca/userfiles/files/62095141515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/68900368710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partroyfuneralhome.com/partroy/assets/file/87779908165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408e5a9d50f---53083702270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/mefexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-etalon.ru/upload/files/gozakojomozevijuvupavisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekopaczka.pl/imgbrama/files/45351215537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/womowokirifupujejino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simorgh.it/uploads/file/21904125603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/sudobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianspringhomes.com/userfiles/files/sevabepumuwagegepab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kortennis.co.kr/B/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sajuremoragapifosoxebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14379652219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwardiajuvenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/nutijavivubunugov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aromamarketing.md/img/files/lebarukix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzsjlt.cn/userfiles/file/28074760412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayinntorino.com/userfiles/files/wajuwosuraxuworusunetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centromp.it/userfiles/files/7598377504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtpokebar.com/uploads/files/33510791627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaaquachem.com/uploads/files/podota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=toonapp+cartoon+photo+editor+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000b3c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3C5 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 9a2cf392e4db328bfe61595d57fc14b88dfcb7f2420041467f6078f0c34da6ec
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBD4 16580 bytes
SHA-256: a187b7be3e8a5abdb62323bbe0603d4b81d96a10a5a17cbed85728c7242191b3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f61f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF61F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1