Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baafacfb22e04258…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.3 KB Created: 2021-09-24 13:20:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b0639b999505d70ceb08a51eaffcb093 SHA-1: 6d513f41eeca1e590d5e2ad45ad72e07c7b6e7f2 SHA-256: baafacfb22e0425801096b653d5b8da48932fb17a3cb44be9ea8ff86d3ccd11f
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it's a link farm on disposable hosting. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=retrieve+icloud+email', suggest a phishing lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6878

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=retrieve+icloud+email
    • http://dison.cn/filespath/files/20210917120356.pdf
    • http://lionsmarsala.it/userfiles/files/firiwowajugenos.pdf
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/vopenetem.pdf
    • http://location-venise.com/italie_documents/files/jefasaxaw.pdf
    • http://didaconcept.com/admin/fckeditor/file/fugunedova.pdf
    • https://ku4ysk-9lgp4y.com/contents/files/14980674549.pdf
    • http://gnox.vn/upload/files/sikar.pdf
    • http://isleford.com/filespath/files/20210921235242.pdf
    • http://www.wcd.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zodufoposubavu.pdf
    • https://12waktu.com/contents/files/48827441664.pdf
    • http://teakdeck.pl/files/file/72913838025.pdf
    • http://okna-stv.ru/userfiles/files/finizamikosozewi.pdf
    • http://honeycontacts.com/uploades/userfiles/file/84867329879.pdf
    • https://kolkatanagariksammelan.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90591524604.pdf
    • http://maquinandoysubastando.com/dleyes/admin/fotos/file/wamutokulewex.pdf
    • https://ventadeterrenosagricolas.com/userfiles/file/25192148947.pdf
    • https://truckforceone.eu/upload/editor/file/22706757114.pdf
    • https://aymexco.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30305016760.pdf
    • http://dblbtech.com/userfiles/file/974389822.pdf
    • http://ijfbn.com/editor_up/pitisosopagifazubefuwagif.pdf
    • https://tanhaithanhvalves.com/quangcao/admin/file/nawolewunolobuwaze.pdf
    • https://dom4m.lv/userfiles/files/rowevomibogorijenegude.pdf
    • https://ehlibeytalimleri.com/resimler/files/98968839741.pdf
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b47e.bin
4d00a0c7cf8232dfafe9b4605ef8ed8f6760f0fae6f72f36f56c0a65f97947f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB47E 18256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e349.bin
36768cabd9252031ef574a593945c7c58e6296e8353ec4f58a1589b14dbd36c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE349 10468 bytes