Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b845903ce941c6ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 16:42:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 90befa5ffbeeeef597417f1b2059a518 SHA-1: 8124363ef6dc2cbf30b1b2c0fc1b6a77798cf73a SHA-256: b845903ce941c6ab9a2c5f40ff9c0f2d9506f2eae4366ed78001c29f3585b6e0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, some pointing to link farms on disposable hosting, suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. Although no scripts were extracted, the document body's structure and the heuristic 'SE_URGENCY_LURE' imply a social engineering tactic to prompt user interaction with the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+step+counter+built+in PDF link annotation
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/marimagatulewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ritijofuvaliravet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingstop.com/uploads/files/salosizugisemazuguvofoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bikugowazofutoxevijebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taociren.com/upload/file/210906051949087627322g548iazn7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/75400146937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hide-bo.com/img/tmp/file/1990747643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djpress.pl/Image/files/muxazonodolurut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-bau.com/ckfinder/upload/files/90390804518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekt-dom.pl/designhome/admin/userfiles/file/ziroseragemakirevofejite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veneziashowroom.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wesopuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://launensia.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27017451353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161496b8851f04---tepus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourbuilding.ru/userfiles/files/92480913204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bd420bceac---20741080909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huanghecables.com/d/files/lojoveveloleva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyqjsj.com/UploadFile/file/20210919023405525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/pijexom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0800-707-808.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210902135510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/mujigarapil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archgeo-leszno.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/9418574082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mq-water.net/upload/44089971951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/79691914559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giustizianuova.it/userfiles/file/18074526314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.travelenvogue.com/userfiles/files/62853542251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://we-women.de/default/files/uploads/file/16392964497.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_off0000eabe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEABE 10568 bytes
SHA-256: c27eb710333ccc28ec9d8f1a6daf273c709ccf3163cb5b220ec3e75f227d1cd0
font_01_sfnt_off000102bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ad1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD1 18452 bytes
SHA-256: fa9a48df272f9cddb812057e51d838fc7028ace29dee75c70e2339229c6e98a9