Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b48f915ff34d7e4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 22:45:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1e391145ac6b7d7ab9cd97e676954e62 SHA-1: d6fc130dafc4881e4814b216cf9326af6fd34dbb SHA-256: b48f915ff34d7e4b795ba6707a6b95cb3de5a903f514fb3ba3a20aeecef36bc2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly indicates a malicious intent to distribute content or phish users through a large number of links on potentially disposable domains. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://thekreativecompany.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/lapolima.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://losmarinoslanzarote.com/marinarubicon/admin/file/vugajagekotete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irepairplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/ririnuvibup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/xuzivamikulidoderumuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramor.bg/userfiles/file/54358312428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokewaveanaheim.com/uploads/files/wepesanagasozonasajegudun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytshirtcreator.com/app/webroot/files/file/16185727132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laptoptranganh.com/data/dulieu/files/98285540051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mccartha-cobb.com/userfiles/files/fapewetediwigofaxinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ffa24bdcf2---kesoxapowefema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolonauticofavignana.it/userfiles/files/43391826649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614070b8e3594---napiwusuxefogolalawudef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhocxuatnhapkhau.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/xezenufavoperejegukin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burnat-provins.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9075684692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawweb.info/mycms/admin/userfiles/file/43984463056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/9507376396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://print-resource.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kepolaretamakudako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_C9D5303BA59E4C94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavalentina.ro/app/webroot/file/fazaruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.ca/userfiles/file/1227324253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abisspaandboutique.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/89742792165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopabrang.com/images/files/63511644781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=groundhog+day+streamPDF link annotation
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/lakufup.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_off0000be41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE41 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 720ea12f26df4a9a680826410c259473cbae348178fcd2050ec8b6c72aa49832
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6DC 16852 bytes
SHA-256: 6e98c091a9eed796ae4570a679a4f8e85b999da0fa97848ef552054e178bb27e
font_02_sfnt_off0001026a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1026A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1