Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b402f5212b096810…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 19:06:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c131a35e9f64f9827d03f26fcece2c52 SHA-1: 24d40e5146a0d615203d1ae2d3418c827312c737 SHA-256: b402f5212b096810bc1c15b4da753582b0b167197b2510728ce856bf294f28b1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests the document is designed as a link farm, pointing to numerous distinct hosts, which is a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, contribute to the overall picture of a malicious document attempting to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://montagnobozzone.it/userfiles/files/xifakulubev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomaglio.it/userfiles/files/xipetakufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrocare.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sipabovowixodakegetujita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlfuelmarine.com/userfiles/file/72177173755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/kulavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovartea.eu/userfiles/files/99457253516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/99175049073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfadent-volg.ru/images_uploads/files/95858713141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vk0rmjpmh1lmppuudsjgvmp6ff/39521021195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autopsrus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30319882062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonvoyageindia.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zivuzagugenawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essentielles-theater.de/UserFiles/File/jipofujetituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sentinels.ro/userfiles/file/redagabisevuzuwozadob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asqcert.net/files/files/68681894506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digivideos.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bavejimavodog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lokutiguvuvipavarezimafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nileagriculturalindustries.com/file/98048914914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2o2b17g32e8xisqq.com/userData/board/file/matigodorofiwetajolagumit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161300ab49f98e---wabuvusunuzozoruxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pate4me.com/userfiles/file/57003107915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.facyt.com.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49219593132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halkapsikoloji.net/userfiles/file/jofepogixulifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioaec.com/userfiles/files/tibafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optical-axis.com/uploads/files/202109052045578520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incomingmakedonia.com/files/files/sikavewoxenapurerax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=free+esl+reading+comprehension+worksheets+pdfPDF 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_off0000bf4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF4D 17980 bytes
SHA-256: 984c32cc83effe1e32d52c8338e4c59d425c684133c7ca3a8e6b73f0244860e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000104a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A1 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 295e264d180ee16228203254ca23ba3c695051a50a11406bf1f3fa8b92e7069b