Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce9d583536773abc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 19:03:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0845a36795a2a19933c04a362fc3e3fd SHA-1: 274038bcd5528c5d485371128e6d7f5ab3648a37 SHA-256: ce9d583536773abca751ae2045f849f6fe29971c13f097c03526857e107217cd
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF sample was flagged by ClamAV and an ML classifier as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to suspicious domains and some utilizing UTM parameters for tracking, suggests a phishing or link-farming campaign. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically indicates the document's purpose is to host many links on disposable domains, likely to distribute malware or conduct phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/supad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/1595186499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/rimonaxivifimil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mirrorlink.com/public/files/files/suzesanapisuruwipimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.club/sites/default/files/file/fugomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/wosug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/45518204491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/80909705718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yemany.com/yemfiles/files/megugifefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solelane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24470258912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/lewezewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verner.lt/images/files/22033107431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sandsflooring.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jajolabekeribulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lidiyageorgieva.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wogeratupexodapib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.training/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/40031192001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meadescafe.com/userfiles/file/50578963654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161404d4ba9994---debirojexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lumixorugovixunefegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thucancakoihikari.com/luutru/files/63078159701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908084800367329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/96619510587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/33729003557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pessin-location.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1339074256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902220423673953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/45178302265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=game+tuner+latest+apkPDF 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_off0000e222.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE222 17716 bytes
SHA-256: 9651e614f52af28627a3e0815c659536ea274b8f513941ac731b3d6fef603318
font_01_sfnt_off00011038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11038 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 0171a88710b88bea787d43189d0b9a908db52c7146a736972f7f06b20686fdea
font_02_sfnt_off000127e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1