Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7ab7dc7e182e60d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 16:11:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1e249ceb03e0403a0576b6e4c6547a86 SHA-1: 2d04b4d8ec95b67ef9e05c0ae46e8cbb79bebf5e SHA-256: c7ab7dc7e182e60d9b3d7027083cd4d86816a96e7109f13f3d0a6fb5de64f332
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous external URLs are embedded, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically points to the use of disposable hosting for link farms, reinforcing the phishing pretext. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest a malicious document designed to lead users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=da+pdf+a+kindle PDF link annotation
    • http://vecsecity.info/editor_up/rororabisovuwisagigaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theurbanbazzaar.com/userfiles/file/45603561042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebookmarkcafe.com/uploads/files/dibaxidotokuxaxinemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/simuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63242055014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liweisteel.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/litaxevirad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenteriyaki.com/uploads/files/fufuxuroduzusikaxixedewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gejumagap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emtracing.net/userfiles/file/molusapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/balavapisekubewijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceleevideos.org/images/file/24106393159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitecuador.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22351652176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freetourscadiz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jabazaforalabuwusofemitob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/tibobelixivajakudok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hqev788a2jj58jnj3ivighpoq/30846952290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acta-mobilier.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62946158943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/64075137977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://receptabc.hu/images_banner/files/49849776546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/87512032025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gipakebunap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicompk.com/survey/userfiles/files/8599695680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpchkg.com/upload/image/file/kexuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernwashpros.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/59444018322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfollowers.com/ci/userfiles/files/34928785075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhactheducthammy.com/upload/files/28043216052.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_off0000ed80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED80 10100 bytes
SHA-256: c8f29520ed9ea883b1b9892bba50aeb863db84341c46fd432804597b013979c6
font_01_sfnt_off00010409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10409 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C1B 18676 bytes
SHA-256: 661dde717357bf51353ee974bb5f6eb9ef63df9db56d803b58e954b5e0e98611