Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8e54c3e5c0d2234…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 09:56:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 969aea83648150d6e4d691c736ced4e2 SHA-1: 28334fcff751df965b0d1faaa304aac4bcad0994 SHA-256: a8e54c3e5c0d223409d72e956fe76ff88970f30328be8db6e5e2b999e66287d4
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as a link farm, a common technique for distributing phishing content or malware. The presence of 'utm_term_redirector=True' in one of the URLs suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination.

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://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vemalafa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/54737820150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dorfadvertising.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28264526031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dodolifanenep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfuse.it/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1631588053_ea4325a23a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chhattisgarhsanskritboard.in/sharpinstitute/images/files/kisixup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miminku2.com/contents/files/zemuxazeratabebabesogigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b11kh5l.com/ckupload/files/87450340336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://billard-hauri.ch/userfiles/file/76573209848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/mosirapabisonemerab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majstrissmt.eu/www-data/file/lixodutezodono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioscoponi.eu/userfiles/files/patavuragitegideza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alaqart.atelierleuthold.ch/userfiles/files/82480624969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriailgalloelinnamorata.com/userfiles/files/91149602524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hertzlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/58938278115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agronlogistics.com/userfiles/files/rujexuzomokekagaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personal.sut.ac.th/chantira/port/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23194007445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intelekt.biz/uploads/pages/files/64599711774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613971d9f4137---dukutogaweruvarevazatisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/16192174507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/popesorixinibenuvukuviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904150416201008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimore.vn/webroot/img/files/milobida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614165c436c0a---jebenaxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondachem.com/d/files/14887042273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=telegram+group+voice+callPDF 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_off0000c6be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ded0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED0 16368 bytes
SHA-256: 96dc540344659adf63c7ed0f9820d46a87ca6dd3f344aa0e7c3a547a070c1de3
font_02_sfnt_off000108b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B9 10476 bytes
SHA-256: ff92e2d66d95a8e927bbb5449ec823f86565af86d462414f3fac07be3babb264