Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bef411a262f1563a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-30 14:47:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 048b0ffa2ed34fd9b4fb7aa435c7888a SHA-1: 950b2ad82f159aed4aa67c0b553146e34ec2cc64 SHA-256: bef411a262f1563a3a18f1ce7c49eb9f0be76d4f2a8efa01e52cc50ecc329673
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which are on disposable hosting and appear to be part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The `wkhtmltopdf` authoring application suggests it may have been generated programmatically to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anime+apk+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://ljjxmining.com/uploadfile/file///2021091114311472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compagniaviaggi.gattinonimondodivacanze.it/themes/userfiles/files/fagubisugokakafetetudeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://behtarinekhodetbash.com/files/files/gafifarumofanedemurekeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gianlucabruno.it/dati/upload/file/jelajuvimosiwawiwoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/49972518296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarazzi.eu/userfiles/files/mebijobupadanonitijikesej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luckyfood.itweald.com/uploads/files/61395ca54da09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fukaofoods.tw/uploads/files/202109120227502744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongthuyphatloc.com/luutru/files/3981035529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202109050233393097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341300e79ce---mipesugalujux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nufisadanemanevapudixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashhadgardi724.ir/basefile/mashhadgardi724/files/58493568131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littleitalypizzany.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/45014059740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepsima.biz/files/file/18800596499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlbcsimleague.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/legulaxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaz.sk/editor_uploads/files/89021046387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kehlux.lu/userfiles/files/30775660755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ismart99.net/upload/files/wadupisosetudan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/43298098205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eko-briketes.lv/userfiles/files/586334963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidsslot.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58255309865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oumkua.com/userfiles/file/22181606655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewoongroen.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/99739927003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://surupaceanu.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuleluvobavufupem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karatenarrewarren.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sukeresosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctmcooper.com/userfiles/files/nosifonerinoxabovizas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b59e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB59E 17864 bytes
SHA-256: bb130d220a481b0db0e43f41f3360cc869de6a468655e5ad4dbc84ed69159c9e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE387 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 40f64af54d8a084adb10d2de4cc3695f3a24e4fe1d5fea7e5d123ea21ea091c3
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1