Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab6327fdad27aebd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-10 04:45:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d3709d724d8f2c64f4497b01abb9fc17 SHA-1: 00799cb2bb69448b33e9bf22b3afe89c0d28c43e SHA-256: ab6327fdad27aebd137d3464c4be0821483b6fa91b8aabacc607dc7e5945f5f9
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs further supports this, as they likely lead to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021090418080027.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://przystaneknida.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/64073006289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/91288548155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/82168670538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sherpachristain.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22779941866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beeshark.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/36580472112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dab035ae6e720562d7faad6e2efc119c/43352836685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/97741028306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/17387499290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongchengtech.com/uploads/files/202109020337554496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfhu6ab4bqv.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/nukeraforulagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldapromosyon.com/calisma2/files/uploads/57450650641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreadramatour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210902_856356DF917BCEA3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://townofwinslowin.com/flash/townofwinslowin.com/file/xofijapalupozemasuzupof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja.ua/userfiles/file/veweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://currenwatch.myhost360.cn/file/upload/files/09-04-15-32-36-33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/koxelegimitogawewolude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poliinc.com/upload/files/deporuvagemekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaziogluenerji.com/images_upload/files/fafumetopulude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/relesomojadamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videotour24.com/data/fckupload/file/54992297185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f40f7fe89593fe73f672284f9e6d679c/2531868536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=use+permission+androidPDF 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_off0000b179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB179 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c98b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC98B 16012 bytes
SHA-256: 7679637cecce9df733bbb50c5013d39e0cd1108fbc9f8ce7f373646820bc5272
font_02_sfnt_off0000f27d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF27D 10416 bytes
SHA-256: f28a623a958924662faf23cfd5b5c877c5811a76d8be20ffbb053d2e90987a12