Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d778b2bd85e75193…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-09-30 19:18:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: db5f072af153073194bd3f76ae102f82 SHA-1: 8ea97444ef9d3bdaef36ce8e9acb5f1c311853bb SHA-256: d778b2bd85e75193b1f9ede72de9a5f752170de169db06229c44c5fb42a2746e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is structured as a link farm, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution vector, aligning with the Spearphishing Attachment technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=france+football+club+name PDF link annotation
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/xetutedeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueview.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/vonobaravosased.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usateatop.com/_upload/files/17970987517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anglometais.com.br/adm/Editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mekesusog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipllaser.in/uploads/47508831198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/1192501053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/najuxatusosav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenmongdangquang.com/upload/files/14136799826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://professionalcatererspaul.pageindia.com/resume/cms_files/files/12222839774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planningpvedh.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65021373396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelascanu.it/uploads/file/84047063430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392220c3d89---pavipopele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qualityspices.in/ckuploads/files/8037395123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiflex.ru/userfiles/file/jugokuvidalozujabisago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7m-shop.com/userfiles/file/gesokazizitifepurosutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rulife.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78603102135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://choinka4x4.org/cms/files/file/8127567528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wowojutapubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a18a222192---wesogapipijuzirasiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talenthunt.biz/userfiles/file/givokolenuruwakorolanat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaushalango.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/55045611732.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_off0000ac27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC27 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 3933b8048dfa359c3d1b8ead2a1a89613fb1bb778bca55a4fa3108433c0103a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000c3db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3DB 15096 bytes
SHA-256: d81912b24e6bba48fba8428080f63c6e6ca5f7caf3e2dc7e3b46e9efd32bebd7
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1