Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 badd07c96bbcdaf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:16:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: aca240f9afcc48bae2fe3e6f2c2baca1 SHA-1: 9ec4259c73d54d5dabf977bd3d001eaff352245d SHA-256: badd07c96bbcdaf07570fa5d28c007d49349277e3b2de72f3a96b33b0358f642
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to host multiple links, potentially for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous embedded URLs, some with 'utm_term' parameters suggesting tracking or redirection, reinforces the attack pattern of luring users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://ruedi-leuthold.com/userfiles/files/72811639828.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a79652a0dee0d8db147a86e43dfaff45/pixefet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/10149161151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itandem.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44549282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sadhankendra.org/erc/media/texojotikeket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spl-designs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duxoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmvolontari.it/userfiles/files/mufuliraxekunepitid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alansglobalservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giturefovepis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzfcw.com/file/fkimg/file/33472674293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongrentangthai.com/UserFiles/file/66013226267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/77619113317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://form4concrete.ru/pics/cont/file/56480940961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baldonimarcostudio.eu/userfiles/files/dodipepujujapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ls75uivhfosp7gu4qovqvru17/9087180890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kochitaxirental.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xefenilevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzyixiangchem.com/upload/files/galedaxufojewer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210910175906173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stockbauer.hu/uploads/file/sawonovojesefakevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210911163134655344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swatimishra.in/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/gozukigekikamadakipixubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/bufoguwudigoxureva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heichapuzi.com/uploadfile/file/36350705871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gma.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2502735070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=download+iron+man+1+game+for+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_off0000b1d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1D9 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 158667513da40c15616a103ed10ca474fd398a728335e41746855935d1e5229b
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9C8 15176 bytes
SHA-256: 961622edcc424544b9ec1e74322e841b751a1935808b9097bae03f547453320b
font_02_sfnt_off0000eff5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1