Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd7928a8cae1a83d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 15:54:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ac6d62677c9556540f78b30b3988b18e SHA-1: 05fad4146ccf49a1d9f0f53af41d971e96500a58 SHA-256: cd7928a8cae1a83d7666bd78bad998425bf5e28699d058da6475c1f1576a38b6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous distinct hosts, with one identified URL being http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c7h2tmcveh55flcd9fnbkauu3/fadajumixoxilokesiboli.pdf. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of link farms in PDFs often involves JavaScript to facilitate redirection, hence the inclusion of T1059.007.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c7h2tmcveh55flcd9fnbkauu3/fadajumixoxilokesiboli.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/junarubitumozasanamemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sierrainstruments.cn/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202109/file/binijof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/lefumej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/kelotigiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nollve.com/img/editor/image/file/ragasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/peruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leoclubmarsala.it/userfiles/files/sovebiwade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/jikidogapizuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomlight.pl/_bloom/file/kividozidinisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.com/beta/assets/file/legisubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnv-cnc.com/userfiles/file/113506237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143bd0328a20---sitewuzomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltes2.tw-goods.com/UserFiles/files/towaladagoxotepajolug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huabulaw.com/uploadpic/2021-9/file/2021091621290373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelushba.com/userfiles/file/51302621457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finara-v.com/file_media/file_image/file/52459142127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://generalaudit.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/63555006517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campfun.myhost888.com/upload/ckeditor/files/tubatebivomakubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kotolantopeni.cz/files/patom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/xapodapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biharlokmanch.org/userfiles/file/pejuwuwitipisop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-spa-resorts.com/dok/rapubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=app+para+traducir+textos+con+la+camara+androidPDF 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_off0000d925.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD925 19712 bytes
SHA-256: 7411071e06b6a8bd3ccd2bf6cb7cc6331786a11167327a819a1a94923cbdbecf
font_01_sfnt_off00010ba9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA9 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 92f0ec1c634909c24da0620c6793f422af08adbfae46f1c2d683ecacaad61b99
font_02_sfnt_off000124c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1