Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4f80c9e0909ea74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 16:44:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8f93717ac435274e64a6d29c9603cbf7 SHA-1: 802705788a122c1da573030664378108b892d357 SHA-256: c4f80c9e0909ea7481a20168cc094d265abe72713d5ddf59adb0aec88bbceb66
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it's a password-protected archive lure and a link farm. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to suspicious PDF files on disposable domains, suggest an attempt to distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the PDF and the link farm heuristic suggest potential for JavaScript execution or other embedded malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://novastal.pl/userfiles/file/kilelijurudimaxuvufabol.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bad5f566954b1e9ba4e602d8586986f/zojiwelizupon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausman.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/98175719008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamlineparkplaza.com/assets/amund/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35093489522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabini.it/userfiles/files/zotifalemozulemesex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santehsevast.ru/userfiles/files/radamuniveno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/xodofazunevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/3279317726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/zasasazejutos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimansion.com/uploads/file/11681147298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210906153248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d843a706d413dc270d1f44ffe58b349e/xatolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92454664129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/mezerumutizoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.cz/files/files/63859138417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/bovopujeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gospel-streams.com/asset/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94848746578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexcochoralsoc.org/demo/lccs/beta/userfiles/files/75977558634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caigeshi.com/uploadfile/file/2021091702505873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://specialcats.nl/media/files/99259186412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygrind.ie/userfiles/file/83561453217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunphu.com/userfiles/file/monerimezolukozex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/2641920424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaiyudachem.com/filespath/files/20210915192949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugang360.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904221104663653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=feed+the+beast+infinity+evolved+guidePDF 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_off0000c8d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8D4 19116 bytes
SHA-256: d43dd523999f6cf1eb802049a8919e6e048d614a7b864b85b0b1b06e91bd00e5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9C7 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 17fcba44babe97626fd9be1bee956aa6cfffe4b7a86a5c5a7cb539e70ff1e4b3
font_02_sfnt_off000112e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1