Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 caf81cb4b6a1d6fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 23:51:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4b86bcb5d41b8f27f2e833324949c3f4 SHA-1: dd7537f8c3913cf23c8b3730c0a68d925bf39525 SHA-256: caf81cb4b6a1d6fb364f07af4c008317eaad4865665962fc0c60257adbb8cf3f
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDF files, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the true malicious destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a malicious document designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://premiersuli.hu/files/files/12578469.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ijdssymposium.eu/upload/36002611190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenayu.com/filespath/files/20210906142638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doxity.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69334400296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pevak.info/UserFiles/File/28625127608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventima.ru/userfiles/file/56793602859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906093700629452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nitdgp.ac.in/uploads/userfiles/files/59266954204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/madokikafowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namlinhchivietnam.net/userfiles/image/file/64922346036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanhcongnghiepthinhphat.com/upload/files/bukedike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avatars.ru/userfiles/file/pinitimedizemux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e9d61268fd---juxoxetoxuvutopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgardening.nl/images/file/koxuguvuvalirovep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujieshubao.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021090122481373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/bapumomizopiwamenenewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/92682285823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210905190742963914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0411.com/userfiles/file/20210904235944_tvgokm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613558c1d5afb---2711706350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hizlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/21221741997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wu-pao.com/upfiles/editor/files/12218302761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=game+guardian+apk+download+iosPDF link annotation
    • https://tes-sys.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20210906/16309423136621.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_off0000be73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE73 17028 bytes
SHA-256: c4b875a4c979d35814ec6785f232bba69d410cd88197cc96c36f02da202f2b86
font_01_sfnt_off0000eadb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEADB 10956 bytes
SHA-256: c48778dc396fa60172decabf8d4b19328bf6881260ac8e16cb5cbb85d2794ca4
font_02_sfnt_off00010411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10411 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1