Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbe061be05baaa4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 06:52:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9e37574dad3435a380034cdf01a842c1 SHA-1: 0168370d63097a0256520b806aaa9810b94c5d06 SHA-256: dbe061be05baaa4f67b8899c53b3e8e2b98d2aa16da04ef8408edabb005e86c2
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple external links, with one heuristic specifically identifying a link to a potentially malicious PDF hosted on disposable infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=deep+learning+tensorflow+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://gs-metals.com/filespath/files/20210911134429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/43893524072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intrinhgia.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/97609423027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143da0174a4b---sanutebanaxavulefijikuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/dakoxodawivumaverob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noavarservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jamonurivufosadavune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmsone.com/eimages/file/63935828914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidrometa.com/images_upload/files/jitiziwofusar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/3183887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroytehcentr.ru/images/file/nujimibawodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/39847223467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202109161705458555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/julevidodixawanutiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-barrierfree.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_A7903AD33A9C8330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocigliano.com/userfiles/files/zaporuwodonasekexuzuwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signos.larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/zanivarawimukijulugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah168.com/contents/files/temotuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soosekszer.hu/upload/files/98101044860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelona-health.com/files/galeria/files/95427432064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/puzisunus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ca32643d56---zubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profil-metall.de/content/uploads/file/tatixajefumet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-oilfieldequip.ru/d/files/pasop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalqwerty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43659796275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///45244952270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/ragajotofuvefovav.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_off0000cffa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFFA 10760 bytes
SHA-256: ee563858ecf8b3b20ef349cb5300f52b45e854f0b2796b7c3c62193df99a7968
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B4 17640 bytes
SHA-256: 247f3708c0759074caa629fa1c0c57dd0f605d01b315a274fb378b77798d3094
font_02_sfnt_off00011758.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11758 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1