Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd8dce675d4bb3d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 19:14:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fb473c262382786107e73513042679ad SHA-1: 571a8eccfe741ff5fd6f8c84bac949b2d1e0531c SHA-256: cd8dce675d4bb3d0c7c3248f517c55df6d77ded57cf7c48f133781d0f651151d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The PDF's structure and embedded links suggest it is intended to redirect users to malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://braintreeclinics.com/app/webroot/img/files/17353386995.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dlshixiang.com.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adbbbaeqjtsflbfms0e.xn--p1ai/pict/file/17396412675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamcatcherltd.com/userfiles/file/14632927299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecodiagnost.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63432781341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marmaraisg.com/images_upload/files/97052695374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/wupupazugalinudosazaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c83nvpi8r2n82f608u7q6okqi0/xefukir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c55c909067150e2946c015a75cfc0be4/vajarasajarifaxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunianco.com/other_files/File/xibetezukago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aguejfegacgj0ad.xn--p1ai/pict/file/lujopuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuryakyn.ru/userfiles/file/99182458311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/bukigalikamuruna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frisch.ro/files/file/toxeniwuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/pilinofosowenupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazdooradda.com/userfiles/file/tojugavuxirirajamop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomtco.com/technical/files/file/nixedurugapanubaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/48494175751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/puzubiduximesuwofamowar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/87068784252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles/files/99370984211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexuspolymers.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8010635281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=below+her+mouth+movie+online+123moviesPDF 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_off0000d2b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2B1 17400 bytes
SHA-256: a89c5c0990b15bdd092fdf0f76be367e990f9b15160b22be9955c1c86b74a181
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11731 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 6a8a01ea4a1a515c19ce636b5d2c2e9c01f9f9d04abd1a85e482b926220d737c