Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d297f2e45e1c9f87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 19:34:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 58db861f1d483da661bd04309c993de8 SHA-1: 4ce49bddf3e2bf4b3750a06fb77c7ed766fd0811 SHA-256: d297f2e45e1c9f8756f7e07b9c3c1a5c1941ee055e39d35e8b9326b60a6d318f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and the link farm heuristic point to a malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=avoir+verb+conjugation+in+french PDF link annotation
    • http://ambvetsanprospero.eu/userfiles/files/49846349415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinebadmintonacademy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33166777148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidneystonetreatment.in/userfiles/files/xowadinolujevowaxopate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-mst.com/mst/_upload/files/26078570660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/42093901524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/rezuzav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cowmoo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73624415276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexcochoralsoc.org/demo/lccs/beta/userfiles/files/gamimufiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukdae.com/files/fckeditor/file/fetazutokalewumexene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidneystonetreatment.in/userfiles/files/kobikikeragemugojizazoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpkwi.org/userfiles/files/67915941762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhopalliteraturefestival.com/mpsdp/uploads/files/lojekikumikij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nejaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-inmobiliaria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/netereburevowojazofumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birudongker.com/contents/files/74811017542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fd-health.com/upload/ckeditor/files/79193903690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villapellegrino.it/userfiles/files/fotezopekomopimixen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f9a893efc---79863165601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nebukiwigerugevanuwipewak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneriavaragnolo.com/userfiles/files/43660775879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acsalma.hu/userfiles/files/84043337407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buzascsaba.hu/userFiles/file/49170870408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4ta56cft2qlq3ksv8vslicun6/87831599610.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dbef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBEF 10820 bytes
SHA-256: e575ab7c1dcb705c2d61c065c9a2e4505c40c80c0df37098544184f7b7549dd0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010cf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CF4 19904 bytes
SHA-256: f2ac861191a724e4f98ad466bac081d0e396801d642ff5d8a0753776338e5990
font_03_sfnt_off00013ffb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FFB 16232 bytes
SHA-256: e06ebeaa2bb94d9bf14337b0794fec2c9c4a66e30291689b6f6234bfe360c8a5