Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1ed5143787f58a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 07:47:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4d0e8151bd9e6e91aac910bc298f48df SHA-1: 1675ff991dd1e08d01228466c5c17bb5a30f2c9d SHA-256: b1ed5143787f58a5b1bde24e21cf49a1d99723fde4c3ad475d00f93eb7bfef42
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and external URI firings point towards a common attack pattern of luring users to malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+go+plus+plus+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://vinniescustoms.com/userfiles/files/tetedagowevovuvopenesipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lebufojafipijozusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocrangsuthammy.vn/upload/files/dalekanubojobubumomowuwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocphuocjsc.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/45592066345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/67436754370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmfegypt.com/userfiles/files/wutumolazobosokedowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernitznigg.at/files/23219168101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd9e03227e---54140352712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrmkaryacollege.org/rrmkarya/userfiles/file/23120776822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/339207305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82970d2c8f0cc0aa389db21272262216/86180338626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvelyrikoscentras.lt/Files/file/50561940400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apra.pl/files/file/vodafimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/24830051065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savoie-outils-coupants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wekit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnwt.mgo.cool/upfile/files/2021/09/03/42336769959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seo-methodes.com/userfiles/file/vuzosawifutukope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsfly.com/uploads/files/80640155360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyacer-ecp.com/userfiles/files/20210903_172750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjqyms.com/filespath/files/20210903140152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsjanaf.com/uploads/files/15553793752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/72394835537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralcomservis.ru/crn_fls/crn_files/49818740435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taucaotoccatba.vn/images/news/files/58892794705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-kursk.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/jubasow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-biyoute.com/d/files/10556568351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/59780717371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/doviduretaf.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_off0000d661.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD661 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE78 10500 bytes
SHA-256: f880d0b2be7eec47be73e20010caa1770ee992955b2e1572a22ce662b04dc793
font_02_sfnt_off0001065e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1065E 18404 bytes
SHA-256: e9c5f93d4851da7b668863121c20bd81adc737fb50e1a2b80a1aff27dcbdbe9a