Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba857a17b17e59d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-25 03:43:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 71a7356faec590c176abb502a60965d3 SHA-1: 46eb199cc0bbbc858fdd65807327a116b78e1067 SHA-256: ba857a17b17e59d5397ac0161aff3cf617bbe79a682e4230be19ad68d1649f26
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are likely part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing or trojan PDF. The presence of numerous external URIs suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=high+life+watch+online+free PDF link annotation
    • https://icoachyou.biz/images/ckeditor/files/jebakogagololoxogafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthlantern.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2070151698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telek-trans.hu/editor_up/kupun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prmakeup.com/Image/files/votijilirobodaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjbmachinery.com/d/files/5931707970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/motezemefupok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--franzsischebulldoggen-lec.eu/userfiles/file/1309778010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gutachterbewertung.de/userfiles/file/65695783244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pandoraecza.com/genelresimler/file/10061602722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educationindiajournal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sapoketukavoguribajolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bab0d92cae---34391138698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/2961576240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shipnhanh247.vn/asset/files/41478455814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atmd3bltfqtknq2op4fg0u3spr/66104851869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/91013604659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0975811252cool.linker.tw/files/roromubajuxojutidujuweji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bischofs-scheune.de/userfiles/file/21586348173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatnhapkhaugiasi.com/luutru/files/13431130989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sino-web.net/filespath/files/20210909015220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/supigizinono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoaidn.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3217079921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48270499858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orrizon.ru/images/file/86495590444.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_off0000afe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c800.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC800 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 68684a7a0a3e75b7ec71609cb51fc4a48ca695e511bca984510a5329670eb4e3
font_02_sfnt_off0000dfe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE9 14876 bytes
SHA-256: add236c297184a5ad00d0c74252f82931c240d0628f365584950dd6425c65a25