Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa8c4fa88adc2eaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-23 18:54:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 95350cc4477e5a9b69f3183345c07ea1 SHA-1: f945affcf6203e7ea58055908d121ee710d4b208 SHA-256: aa8c4fa88adc2eaf5dffd43e88f661a88e6fdde2b2223888148426b038c73904
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious phishing content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of links pointing to potentially disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the document structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=helium+backup+android+10 PDF link annotation
    • http://progettogeometra.it/userfiles/files/safedexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medi-sen.com/files/files/7199706614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yomadesign.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/67000366462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marikakozmetika.hu/editor_up/88377151954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actlogistic.vn/upload/editor/files/36180840437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubablimel.pl/Image/files/44032103008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/sajalasenitexejewozuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/89666623580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnagarancija.com/userfiles/file/vudofidiperufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contua.org/userfiles/file/83005516415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/120511664ae45549067ac1c72e42fdff/busavusotoniduvizetojin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popmetre.com/news/files/64346261246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habrit.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mugirikukoxatapaxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/zogepopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeandrewdavison.com/download/vawoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thy-environment.com/userfiles/files/gexofofobekufifadodokuzup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.phapluatvietnam.com/upload/ckupload/files/27498223660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeon-dev.com/uploads/files/202109140912578608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/16815579757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gres-k.cat/userfiles/file/gotiramupatazuzituxuxezeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tplustech.com/images/ckeditor/files/6946712356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mefotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/fizulukobadamugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedwines.com/cmsCart/upload/file/potekibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpt.mysmartedu.com/uploadimages/files/tuwevatalujupifipupanakux.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_off0000d7f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7F3 10904 bytes
SHA-256: fc3d5714a5adc1a1252a640e0b7611c76d56b3a5410b203ea0f24ca3828c8aa2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D6 16160 bytes
SHA-256: e5af8a4b951549997d4e843eaa962b243d707973a2d61ff46c4bc2ce5a67af27
font_02_sfnt_off00011ab3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1