Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8e6b45a9366c921…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 01:10:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d1d5b9647f9b6b710d2385f2c233142f SHA-1: ba26ac424aa07e23f700c28ed479f8ac27cb94e0 SHA-256: c8e6b45a9366c9219b439d4899ab319f0e2eec1e2f6729c3c530a8366ab80088
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are unknown and potentially lead to further malicious content or phishing sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests a deliberate attempt to obscure the true malicious destination by using a large number of disposable links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://pharma-tools.pl/galeria/file/kanakaka.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://northwestconvention.cz/data/files/34890701743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ace3d1092a---juwidezonokejojefabevuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/sulalisapusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gestaocipa.com/public_html/Imagens/file/1625268129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/26737416858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://net-marketing.hu/images/files/56189371148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdavloeren.be/userfiles/files/82626026592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/nafobijozeramijerakowad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymart.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dolulalagibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshuka.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/norikibanipenele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/33074601755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usefchina.com/uploadfile/file///2021090204500392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132a5cb786ac---6991587964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamtomchabahai.com/uploads/files/files/6350265220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobe-ing.it/userfiles/files/75082156134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mibenjamin.com/userfiles/file/22278258381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evrenmentese.com/upload/ckfinder/files/25812069167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piauiaqui.com/ckfinder/files/mumuvowakarax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwilldoit.ru/uploads/files/files/50365596281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guptajimarriagebureau.com/userfiles/file/nujejerewibajesiluxeguba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=tennis+ball+cricket+pitch+lengthPDF 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_off00010d35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D35 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 7d948d0984695f8a2d459a55878f881fbce583f257efd7c4e8fd7c0de185ef73
font_01_sfnt_off0001259e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1259E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013db0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DB0 18116 bytes
SHA-256: 713ada5b5c36153c902d9456865c4efe13d04cffe85ac8e19af8be91c0155117