Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2fcea1383e047c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 17:27:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f569c07536cf3d6abcc62ba92cbbe3f4 SHA-1: 35ae9124c57e9462df3f0031563adf4e017a99fd SHA-256: c2fcea1383e047c76fa79a967e2fca930d35da1d659ce953564302e01ac12f6d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=prefix+and+suffix+games+for+adults PDF link annotation
    • http://daimarconstrucciones.com/images/admin/file/48643534828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/pimonosozufasajugaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemalipics.com/faluzadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vgcanada.com/userfiles/file/20283141225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiszelyugyvediiroda.hu/docs/file/mumiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.temaricerca.com/entry2013new/admindia/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39296506005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/tuzixopamomip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/xulisuxezugetisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safiorida.nl/operatori/userfiles/file/17156635370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieseam.org/userfiles/files/folibenumaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfcdd8be268a11ba09e0097c5ac5224b/60637073166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f4b98eb6d---bazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insureavisitor.com/userfiles/file/walubabejazesezirap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/filisofexofosowolorox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozsersogutma.com/upload/files/xorukuvezebowepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baliretreatcenter.com/olabali_ci/media/images/newsfiles/tozorifosobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/3263550523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scsk12.org/policy/files/files/18483956555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digicpictures.com/downloads/62937745011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoforace.eu/userfiles/files/zexudar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onthebroadway.com/CPD/adminpanel/upload/file/29871418146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skywaynepal.com/userfiles/file/wokogaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/46404560211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lineshare.net/upload/files/20210905015722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jvlegacyhomerepairsmd.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/kelimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/tosibasifajigidizixisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wartgames.com/themes/languagearts/prefixesandsuffiXes.htmlfreeIn 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_off0000c890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC890 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A2 17568 bytes
SHA-256: bd2dd479cd85e9bd97feb843a762c2f99c9d95b55ea9222c4a8302cb9ac1f451
font_02_sfnt_off00010df0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DF0 10900 bytes
SHA-256: f0aa769e8202cb0adae2c979c9c0bf9d1c209305b4d9c79bd383f38217d8b8b2