Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf28fc9a4bdf1f97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 19:34:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: aaf2c07eb78dbb01a3b2db377a343335 SHA-1: 77b03fb2c954245afc0056f294e2ab06ee71af54 SHA-256: bf28fc9a4bdf1f97d709b449dff71dc21e830dd94c7f85cd509c1b67d7cbb411
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+let%27s+go+lugia+gba+download+english PDF link annotation
    • https://successalpha.team/upload/files/14689318012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/gawogux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/ckfinder/files/files/vedenuganizum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/80354853558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nt-module.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60350463562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wordtmann.beckbauer.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69952333546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitetenindex.nl/images/uploads/fozagaxalowubidiniruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costarica4d.com/contents/files/65650181189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cancelaria.pl/galeria/file/50808126445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krzczonowice.pl/gfx/file/941459119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyescare.vn/app/webroot/upload/ckfinder/files/45945519893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/60505685054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/gilukavowima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcon-aps.dk/userfiles/file/muxurorowogibonuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1iv2m5tvv1aqvuh8gah7r1htk/29747414968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0048.pl/48files/file/5899154408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/4103033478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galerie-louise.be/userfiles/files/5872672490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/walejijibogenekevafebori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soosekszer.hu/upload/files/60063647871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/81877933787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ornito-silesia.eu/userfiles/file/44889649748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivaldelmaridaje.com/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/punevazarixudidekis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bapassamarinda.id/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/17785429525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronnicy.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gifoduforogizapakevo.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_off0000c38c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC38C 18396 bytes
SHA-256: 2bc8fca2f9dd8d7fe11b1da015c57aada1af6c2df52f592cdeb9d419dd4bcfb9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C7 11048 bytes
SHA-256: b75949fca891d643aedd6a3f719c040a59ab9594950ed8d2f1b5ceee0a84298a
font_02_sfnt_off00010d40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1