Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baa70eb4fdf7eb4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 20:55:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8e887bebf1b67e54b42de1ad66553564 SHA-1: 1e29c8dc89702b39fe6cfb09dbecda0347e72682 SHA-256: baa70eb4fdf7eb4de2d350c7d9f3ad008ab917dc936f60496f3070fcdc8dd33e
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. The presence of a link farm with numerous distinct hosts, many of which are unknown, suggests an effort to obscure the true malicious destination. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a malicious workflow designed to trick users into downloading further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://masonhn.com/d/files/62833958255.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vin-baietii.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/356375896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daejonggyoyc.com/userfiles/file/20210919180809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littleedupark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/venowomavekuduka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-i-f.ru/userfiles/file/dixofisumabuwakarekew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://densayhongngoai.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zafamarifiwovek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ingatlanfelugyelet.hu/uploads/file/nulije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bernendorf.ru/userfiles/file/duwatelutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimkhimientrung.com/uploads/image/files/78986529170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps-org.neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/files/64548454830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pezir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofranzoni.eu/userfiles/files/figipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.de/userfiles/files/59197901068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexapos.com/upload/files/47903763624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webaprint.be/img/file/lazaxomodulagekaradore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southwestlooms.com/admin/userfiles/files/86970268193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19382539879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-intelli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xopanejumabuforubikoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/wewumegubusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/53746270404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinetalk.jp/app/webroot/img/fckfiles/file/pajogovenumunobiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/714f17770e3bf266a8cbc8db0c6c5473/ganozaditiletorubepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yameitecl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210907_232038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=sonic+mania+apk+androidPDF 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_off0000f08d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF08D 18156 bytes
SHA-256: 971bcbda072c93881ed309407bc0955872d639cf4924eeb5d7f4f8ab3cfb308f
font_01_sfnt_off00011f63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001377a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1377A 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 32c1600014bbf0fe3f92190072247b3fde5129ca546763573048342e2d7f715e