Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be4cf4cfc6e4a5f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 15:57:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 84931f2b2bc8bd3eef266d722c9e6fe9 SHA-1: d28479e5950a64c647f310917a8c2f8b860c758b SHA-256: be4cf4cfc6e4a5f3cdd0c641018b9196b98180c47986605a346773ee00296751
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one heuristic identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure and URL findings suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://thehedgerowchronicles.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42381065310.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2250a1bef---vixezalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwnickersonplaza.com/uploads/files/barimivajegagepuxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/kubukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.ph/app/webroot/img/files/mowizifiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangnhadat.com/uploads/files/56626855689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/66385830351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quimicahj.com/admin/userfiles/userfiles/file/ruzagojeriwilolivor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krupongs.com/images/file/vurobelexuraposaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valsadindustries.com/userfiles/file/ximudepegosaxisusezufafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/limivef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shukokai-voves.fr/userfiles/file/4641009585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maketmaster.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57297614340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/gexifibovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d3e0741fb---benaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resulgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/matomadilodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohana1bbq.com/uploads/files/nizixexukelulupinefidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://express-service-auto.fr/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fulobizerisotixagijusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monterroso-construpuntos.com/campannas/file/zujipatomunaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mawuxatoxozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabudiagnostic.com/userfiles/files/tuvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srilangkapools.com/contents/files/33784025096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=phosphate+fertilizer+pdfPDF 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_off0000e0a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A7 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 0773bcc9f7201bc5dd403633c8f39d1339ba38284c7d8713ea19c64e774b4feb
font_01_sfnt_off00010d61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D61 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 841674fd190863b7614b1e3e98cdd6ffa98815f7f2a95e9a2959f1d9249f3e8b
font_02_sfnt_off000125a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1