Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aef3321766669a01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-11 04:42:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9aaa2b338b4d51216ddfc12149b2044a SHA-1: 52dc978260408969d9e5281d2e93e3fe090cde65 SHA-256: aef3321766669a01bf80a6447c8b61063d291988b80c85e8ffadb6c8f6c091b7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+hack+impact PDF link annotation
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jifozerefuxubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caissedesecolesdu5eme.fr/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9772489395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandirent-new.ru/uploads/assets/file/fufawimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/2896805142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46774538207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chatham-ebenezer.ckdomain.com/uploads/userfiles/files/gojilagorevesimababes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cauthinh.com/luutru/files/54763889395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti.pl/userfiles/file/guriwatalebelakazironaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burbank.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/11128727660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-ktn.at/images/content/files/mebowewunaroponeposuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valerart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72558308958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontiermea.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78518903014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/jukafuduborarogize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jatransfer.com/userfiles/file/pesapakexesaranubupimev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61111882377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-golfclub.com/ckupload/files/vubasapavuvepivusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gordostcrista.ru/userfiles/file/pisimowixoluzojamojofuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elrey-uslugi.ru/media/file/burutuwurijuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdinhphucat.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/81021899380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbnjl.com/userfiles/files/kodasurolapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minjar.mebel18.com/uploads/files/43165840075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austral-immo.com/userfiles/files/95152525970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/toxixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130caa0e6eea---vumawexixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138332bbe1a1---91184232762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysilo.com/upload/ckfinder/files/benamokotatixebedisimetir.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_off0000e56e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE56E 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 3b1474a514714689cedb58bb39759e287cda4985be85980323f186bdfc51efe9
font_01_sfnt_off0001134c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B63 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 143cc3c1bbb566e28f0ca64162f2681ea2c98e25eeb959fc7c2640976e9c58c2