Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf8071ba810696d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.7 KB Created: 2021-09-25 06:16:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 43338c878b50c8b0a0567eb887401a89 SHA-1: bfaa5f4114b0415a782227eac60c2f143332c3b0 SHA-256: cf8071ba810696d98bf802f3e6603f775215696c35e8a895ca90be79b2d91279
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with a high heuristic score for being a link farm on disposable hosting. The PDF document itself appears to be obfuscated and lacks readable content, suggesting its primary purpose is to redirect users to external, potentially malicious, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6253

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/27442702529.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adminico.nl/userfiles/file/63728427186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noticiascgnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60373644777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/49377280261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtjgrade.pretty-match.com/upload/files/44235179520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promobryansk.ru/userfiles/files/58690576975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paykaaluminiya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72314324467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/11455487262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/sibusunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healhumanity.foundation/userfiles/file/vitokej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garnet-medical.com/userfiles/files/66490171009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/lupopuluse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verticala.ro/images/userfiles/kivofogopoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5m-tti.com/uploads/image/files/31189269363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keramann.ru/uploads/files/fotim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearcon-eng.com/file_media/file_image/file/66191883161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adminico.nl/userfiles/file/pidubakol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/19295502951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbev0bhje.xn--p1ai/images/news/file/rozetarovirenigawun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dumasisefufumoduliniwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edm-medical.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31653634110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pallenberg-busreisen.de/uploads/files/pizivavik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=o+que+%C3%A9+um+telemovel+androidPDF link annotation
    • http://perfecturology.cafe24.com/upload/editor/imagefile/29397437329.pdfIn 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_off0000af9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7B6 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 5ffd984c9591aab246b622a9ce353dd6f497a29a3b32196fe001e4de61d5fe0a
font_02_sfnt_off0000dfcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFCC 17980 bytes
SHA-256: 97fb8b9e9ac0436cea42fc0edbb38edede6f23c5449bbe1a349e4d673bfdc410