Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc4639636e5eb7ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-10-05 05:28:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: b28c40478bc31f20b0711cc5ad3887d0 SHA-1: ae8b27260fe20473316c616ae162dbb661889e3e SHA-256: bc4639636e5eb7ad8322e8ab0517389ac72cb6c0ad1915c111b303c3d0d9e74a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of a Google Forms tutorial lure in the document body, combined with the numerous external links, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zevojamefulol.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tidymoney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xovugeduvitinuvozizedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moriefrusca.com/userfiles/files/98627546622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siciny.pl/userfiles/file/dawudujopitebalowisiwegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat2.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36561985713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zafawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/14153614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesen-und-schenken.de/userfiles/files/92769217973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xagowasojalinepupudol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smgbid.com/ckfinder_userfiles/files/7624463103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/resinalimaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demirlermetal.com/resimler/files/31522211299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhnhomdinhhinh.net/uploads/files/93296271718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelesiuvalymas.lt/i/File/24600789359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/51134327222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juraganmonyet.com/contents/files/wozikijegede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzquansu.cn/d/files/mulidetatujomero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicwalkingturak.hu/_user/file/nuzulawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--pr3b03lcdvwu9dpynqkc.com/DATA/file/20210914161450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://breakevenpoint.pl/uploads/editor/file/xuxakiwovitarinolad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hargagila.com/uploads/image/files/76882861015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chamdure.com/DATA/files/kuvemesan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021090702530512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duepassidalcentro.it/userfiles/files/89262474278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138a95c8dc04---sulimidapudufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=google+forms+tutorialPDF 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_off0000dd3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD3B 17400 bytes
SHA-256: 351ac0157cf4b3551496b4bf0599ae70fbc100c464db85a0280310ec27824d3b
font_01_sfnt_off00010a47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001225e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1225E 10592 bytes
SHA-256: a7b8bd295476cbf7ef614005d68a0be4a7b1f47c9d71ada9e1707ea21e6270b9