Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba1b556e295ef643…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-10 04:05:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 74cd557e529a08ae44a0b8d1bb17908f SHA-1: 00b49d7532a8bfec6f2f993066a8e6c332dde547 SHA-256: ba1b556e295ef64319455431f9f521753f93c1f23904457f86b5b8113dc9f07d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious PDF files on various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure malicious destinations. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the ML/ClamAV detections strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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 http://www.aceitunasdelguadalhorce.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soripoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.com/contents/files/nuworelivem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shukokai-voves.fr/userfiles/file/pelawijuguzaxarubako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hissekurban.com/resimler/files/tinilewajudadajaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarazzi.eu/userfiles/files/melolafapisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/21115847298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicabg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/pulizovixapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keitbg.com/images/files/pugelawefebesusenojik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e4bd2191b3475b151691706feca8b23/35319957393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a9938b0c5e---27070145293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lj-group.cn/upload/files/76870190394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccmiennam.com/media/ftp/file/36353601430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidneytracker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pirutubuwulopenopaperox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/xefopifisejilek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/kabogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonsakai.com/uploads/files/mokevazomogotofojorefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svltv.in/userfiles/files/36522732123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitroc.com/userfiles/file/siwamime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siripanyalamphun.com/user_img/files/34197533037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motocams.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zujusoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bc2000.order-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42768741570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://semanbio.com/upload/files/dosepaleju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magiccat.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/movinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+stop+a+website+from+sending+notifications+chromePDF 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_off0000cca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCA4 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 84af159ebbd072e28fc61caa351d45dbf93879bbb98e231ba6df331e53822e17
font_01_sfnt_off0000e66d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE66D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE7F 18444 bytes
SHA-256: 5d0157fbfdfe2c27ce969471c1f502ede03c62c041d777578c498f70c87bf997