Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d218e5916d70e4e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-15 13:11:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 3dceccb69320867e32448372a2aa5c6b SHA-1: c19774eb1fbba0fece703d14c608dc588218cdb0 SHA-256: d218e5916d70e4e624211be9710fe34f1df48c738fe27ca0dd22349ea64b943c
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm PDF. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to various domains, including one that uses a raw IP address, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a pattern of hosting many links on disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=note+10+change+screen+resolution PDF link annotation
    • http://bm-shower.com/userfiles/files/gomuluzabok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnmetalworks.com/images/files/74381013446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/1054209794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353211f3470---85502339608.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://zartmobilia.com/userfiles/file/20210909205033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safiorida.dk/operatori/userfiles/file/14928686129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepex.hu/hirek/files/xozuvatazekasenogiluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafichesirio.com/userfiles/files/nisoganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbkf.org/files/files/jebiwenupinuxuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelborgodeipoeti.com/userfiles/files/zuvedubirujidigugatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/detabefusegib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensor4you.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202109/file/66797256618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaldaya.com/imagenes/file/72066598784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/magigebavopobujegopuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dubilex.com/userfiles/files/ranuxifezuliba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613613a323e26---15889079211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/posesilejojeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/dekimumuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liily.jp/upload/file/20210904053753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwninemile.com/uploads/files/fezubowexos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olymp-kiev.com/temp/fckeditor/file/rofipileguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vindindex.nl/images/uploads/lexosibedududefupofunul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/pulom.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_off0000e3be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3BE 17912 bytes
SHA-256: 57adb7f7423520e8b8af296768779e4c45e7280e1e3b03200896680e5a0a5da8
font_01_sfnt_off000112b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112B7 10760 bytes
SHA-256: c297f9a447b84eeff7e35166325a0ee0f34f40d29b4c7b42c640d796d5cd79af
font_02_sfnt_off00012b78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1