Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8ac9a239c0dba11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 11:52:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f73d8589a03a844d8e360aaac3acd026 SHA-1: 30d9b26fed9663ffb92bb43e9412df3eb56dc73f SHA-256: d8ac9a239c0dba11e6a284ef3144217c242e9c4eb42e46a4f34f01ed8fe36ca4
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are associated with link farms and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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=king+of+thieves+mod PDF link annotation
    • http://aurastaffing.es/upload/file/38920338730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://storemisr.com/uploads/files/tugiramuvikufogisefakikuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents/files/28312701553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.highettmetal.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83719063028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/45325050720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ana-jsc.com/upload/files/31974553411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93164148572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/67567893859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkipt.com/_UploadEditor/files/65793016277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportingfoundation.com/uploads/file/87757354304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtg-antracyt.pl/files/file/sonibudiwaziretofod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/livikabaxasez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/wovujaripufevunolezazero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnyuanzong.com/uploads/files/20210914022040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanphongphampmc.com/upload/files/32837740045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondachem.com/d/files/ziwitomevelumirale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parbatsamajjapan.com/img/files/files/kamudavixegixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/80869960610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhsmelt.com/upload/files/gewujixalavukurebuwovexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cliniquemyo.com/userfiles/file/18773613999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://problemconsulting.com/img/download/files/92594209880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sial.pl/galeria/file/95807643182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ade27e2b7e6f79f067ac77503d550ec1/60882367824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/74719018944.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_off0000e44f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE44F 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 3ef944ae0709bcfa20f01c8b4153946ce354dd0705f08e6bfea058a2d613e7e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF3 18672 bytes
SHA-256: 90f9ad876e5d37609788bfd0870d13d1f25a6b5b4d93ed282b0fc99255cd0291
font_02_sfnt_off00012ce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1