Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0fbe7cd6b5242fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-10-07 23:47:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 8ca5592c8b7b925c5ed3436923208431 SHA-1: 810f8dd3f1ced6acfadba6665ff6512e3924c9d4 SHA-256: d0fbe7cd6b5242fc7f0f0398d031174e48d858108dbcf4222cc73f5bfb03ca01
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which are hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The heuristic 'SE_URGENCY_LURE' further supports a phishing pretext, aiming to prompt immediate user action. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous embedded URLs point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gk+questions+for+class+3+to+5+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://vespaclubcagliari.com/userfiles/file/kepojijurabod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petek.biz/resimler/files/20175773908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/netedutid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anaja-inter.org/public/file/30507869787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146ecfcd52ad---rafowijabidigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drbumbnursinghome.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/warilipolepadukurod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafegreenwichvillage.com/uploads/files/54554491885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://client.diffuse.info/files/fakubiwoxivojibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorapizza.it/userfiles/files/wamepepifevuvekapiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaneliruzegas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimkhimientrung.com/uploads/image/files/79503653140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediedil.eu/userfiles/files/falulezuxusuwuxazeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents/files/98856841150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artcvajk.friendship-match.com/upload/files/tuzubenapiwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpshardorawal.com/hemkunt/userfiles/file/kaxilijukamasorexuzesaziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161307f7270851---87039968069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunrisemotelbellevue.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/rakiwebinovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongsung114.com/files/fckeditor/file/76772719798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/melifizojifonojobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenatharcade.com/userfiles/file/76098935724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objets.immoweiss.lu/userfiles/files/gukaribojag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bunny888.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79360780385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkmarine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1632383095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnjhanoi.com/upload/files/70324601914.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_off0000e6a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6A0 18152 bytes
SHA-256: 141a3885e21e90859bbc606cc1d11c95021b746dbebd8de9750215a36cd3d44b
font_01_sfnt_off000115f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E0D 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 3c6f073c9284bab222f6a36249ddfcce7702807244fc6d0815b3c104b7fd83ee