Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db8e36e60225f662…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 19:22:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 093731a1564b53bb3ea40bcd48b202ee SHA-1: b29cc225faedd2ba0e001b1aa7771761431abb0a SHA-256: db8e36e60225f662d16616ec20bc9809e277de148200bd06464f80d81ea4755a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to domains that appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically highlights the use of disposable hosting and redirectors, suggesting an attempt to evade detection and distribute malicious content.

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://gangnampools.com/contents/files/63254038862.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/vikefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapharmata.hu/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/33701055362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaluzaktanegitim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/rogovasebefodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.org/contents/files/pikajutiwiralewob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/zatosudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziszolg.hu/editor_up/7256530850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/ferurejapavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/72056003526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippinnudon.com/uploads/files/71887985668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c1a2001330---62438070475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upsshop.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5182878483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/56861238609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b5db8920bb5d7524cb8fe7ebb1a9d68/bamuvomamikunuravesip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelsenator.com/userimages/juzutapixujavabuzarope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logistra.fr/ressource/site-image/files/14885474829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardennes.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31249754705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ih-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28240747297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/77354309504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehla.eu/userfiles/file/24651984098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanrun-it.nl/userfiles/files/19263191152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0949513001631520808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvantindat.com/uploads/2021-09-05/images/files/jufikud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starinviter.com/ckimagefiles/50113902535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=fast+internet+speed+app+for+androidPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000f0a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A7 17376 bytes
SHA-256: a9aa2abb7fdb3072f038080fdbe81d33812713a0fd97934b8bb170db1c8bdfb4
font_01_sfnt_off00011d95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D95 10424 bytes
SHA-256: ff5c5eafbfc080d1ffecbc8f2ed9b2e859227627259c363fe9a5bed9eaea1abf
font_02_sfnt_off0001354f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1354F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1