Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8c56a7b5cbd1ec0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 23:33:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 37643ac5bad6fe4ab5b7eab730fea398 SHA-1: 09057db0332dca45b34fa5be56ea5ec6a3861448 SHA-256: b8c56a7b5cbd1ec01bfaee5cdab80c1b4d810be4ccbf406e8843ed78e04af04e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on potentially disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of 'utm_term_redirector=True' further supports this, as it's often used in phishing campaigns to track user clicks. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://tuttotop.com/userfiles/files/nesabeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://qkmedica.com/uploads/userfiles/file/53003014555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--k1akb4c.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/91044562501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ausztriasi.spawellness.hu/upload/hirlevel/files/mesotoxovolanemumijemobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://am-system.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36292785276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopguepes72.fr/userfiles/file/81178299580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimbuunguyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/9725147992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/jipozepoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.cz/res/file/78715004079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nodka.eu/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48006070569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140934260020---lalabaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishngrill.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/zazebubebozazaxipijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bige.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/pikufewal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeevandeepspecialcare.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vibafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unovosti.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pobovadowusomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijmsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wopegelaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenhere.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109241135328420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nifaelectronics.com/userfiles/file/54183854594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/ragovakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peetersinstallatietechniek.nl/upload/files/dusajekak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161428273b81da---loteligodoropi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisestudentz.com/userfiles/file/sujiximosof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zevemonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=msa+frp+bypass+apkPDF 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_off0000b08a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB08A 17924 bytes
SHA-256: e3a5442040c118172926cbee63a1104fb2ce645b6ca420d3102a04054bb94523
font_01_sfnt_off0000dea6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA6 10096 bytes
SHA-256: eb0a69fa5dc97319af3d2e7699582609bc46f7326bafd86d1dbeb2ef0c1b7bc3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f50f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1