Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac1255ebac2997db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-22 10:45:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 57133a1e075659a31d1422548e43bcb7 SHA-1: b6ea670f3e516300f7164b24d11389263945c03d SHA-256: ac1255ebac2997db1fa0e16cf04a06d8144f6e369b909bcb3bbaff3fb7f0f03d
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are structured as link farms pointing to other PDF files, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm on disposable hosting, and ClamAV detection confirms it as a phishing trojan. The presence of external URIs and embedded URLs strongly suggests the intent is to direct the user to malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5563

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+two+weeks+to+live+online+free PDF link annotation
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/debefudijezawisetovejuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/98130924815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/pijex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.by/userfiles/files/bufosogelibaxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8cj2aja7-8mxb.com/contents/files/rapegowalegekilomejeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikra-ekb.ru/files/fckeditor/file/balotavujirafafuzikifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toitureetfacade.fr/data/Files/nulovolijuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepaltrekkinginhimalaya.com/assets/userfiles/files/62428175652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60a3312f80189bd5e115599a491b4be7/15183082753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/1581985312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drgcode.managenet.ro/images/file/81143555483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tainandentist.com/uploads/files/202109082015428933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jualumnitoronto.com/editor/uploadfiles/50992467180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-vallot.com/upload/files/24620767735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suzekabigerorikowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miaousland.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81157208287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2uuaqii22fkc8vhgvi78c310mg/zabusiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uzmansporzeminkaplama.com/resimler/files/80537088609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/94826522534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protrialse.eu/files/files/1375552273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baoveantam.org/upload/files/fexejoxuxevobep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED1C 18260 bytes
SHA-256: 5d536669074c1692cbaf560edf7e82f2a8e6cf3623f5b2c1aebea203febc37af
font_01_sfnt_off00011ca6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA6 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 4755d85eb0f9457fb2cdf3767fc8c0fbba0b9ab7e5f60a96bc5e1b615b95d884