Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba8144132a327608…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:25:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a0e7357e99834376e649eb448a536371 SHA-1: 5865dcfa571257d1eeb9a0fdfb2458ab1ccaa385 SHA-256: ba8144132a32760848e6d1a042fa32ceaeef5f0ed27a7c175c31e5eb697cbfa1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating the document is structured to obscure its true destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://yibetter.com/data/files/43837219757.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://paraleumarian.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/40278207341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u95vjt16nvkc05ft0bht43ssid/14717907748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skywaynepal.com/userfiles/file/jiwilegamujunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/memomefifejoxugoneparole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irvine.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/kavafefur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seritour.com/rsm/files/punax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://live-net.it/file/xajadadubadelawik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iehyun.com/editorupload/file/86019944494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranduongauto.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/63436135082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tratedu.net/ssss2018/assets/143ad273/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/userfiles/files/5fcfd4a11613532498bc19f52dc2447e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/kerijetabigob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rpsbchamber.org/editorData/file/soxofomizarosojobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copacndg.com/images/uploads/files/kewosofonizuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/39411857124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fvv-hohenfelde.de/sites/default/files/files/13869448832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/bajinosisezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/64357967021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f6d2a83cb---vulotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peknanevesta.sk/media/file/74447566941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawrenceyezersky.com/userfiles/file/97452073293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/37828869529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuakeobinhduong.com/upload/files/49690762597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfectsextherapy.com/public_html/userfiles/file/vinoxivezip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912070034945486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nissanzorba.ro/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47654389865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=grand+theft+auto+san+andreas+mod+apk+pc+downloadPDF 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_off0000c870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC870 16780 bytes
SHA-256: e9f910ec786fa4335dce482f884ce3929c02920543cbeb8ae5c502e20089d372
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010be2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE2 11112 bytes
SHA-256: ed9fd734f6396e85424e623e2bb61afd3837df2d4099c58db74447d66b3694a4