Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bae1c8cab992ba73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-22 11:52:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 68691da794333915ddd16c72e8b9dd19 SHA-1: a197f24d5ed6af10f817ab8b5f44410e28995fa1 SHA-256: bae1c8cab992ba732d0dfad0a3b60dcbcd3294cc2482522f33f3175039ace9b6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan distribution. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised or malicious domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports the attack pattern of using numerous links on disposable hosting to obscure malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zadomakatukilewavuluxub.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/wadovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/5763023376142f80797603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://physocare.com/Images_upload/files/8990602913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samuelben-horin.com/userfiles/file/kedifinunodomodosatotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patroha.hu/file/jujukaleval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerocuki.hu/user/file/gobupeguxobetojefuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/wokubezerovawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/91900788944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taaltoetsvo.nl/userfiles/file/19119735637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compow.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gadexizeleluwewivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcompany.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/10550513376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exdebt.bg/userfiles/file/23076152943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://czus-lukasa.sk/userfiles/file/sumigonumalabigevifizumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avesta-hmora.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/zovuwevokiwekasorufepiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karelo.com/uploads/File/39727784912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turskazka.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24507275652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xetupobunolilofivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodexgida.com/uploads/files/mugoxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minuspk.ru/minuspk.ru/userfiles/file/bizonozuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvubaove.online/upload/files/76401597876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maribon.net/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xajeveba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7a8998f8bf924542a68d7a9fbb87e68/46096505430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/rilalezikigizolovadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afma.pt/site/upload/file/8580927202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=can+someone+see+if+you+search+them+on+instagramPDF 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_off0000d191.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD191 10984 bytes
SHA-256: ff38c947d6a8fe0d07c411f1dd31fbbc7f7a36feba2f3c0c5330b5126758d557
font_01_sfnt_off0000eafc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001030e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030E 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 13428e1bfdd41d9682842e42736275ce8d67797fb949b1fcea96d417f74cb8f7