Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbe5241d08ef0bf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:43:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1e0a387ab8ea7a85512a6c0272714dae SHA-1: c2af7089c69bed79956b0cd991347c858ce05e64 SHA-256: dbe5241d08ef0bf42fa1cb558ae55b469f6ca2720c83a33fe8fef0422737227f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or are part of link farms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating the document is designed to redirect users through multiple sites. No scripts were extracted, but the sheer volume of suspicious URLs points to a primary attack vector of directing users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=phone+keyboard+vibrate+when+typing PDF link annotation
    • https://gtnet-engine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46869678346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtualcharityevents.com/vce_cake/files/files/29088337914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedvizhimost-v-sharm-el-sheikhe.ru/uploads/files/23955954526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomdatesuae.com/userfiles/files/ridas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakkestadbil.no/userfiles/file/49512491435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacionamigosdelmarcaribe.ong/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21944415913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://l-max.ru/userfiles/file/xanoranu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/93640520051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://md-bud.pl/szklo/photos/file/70752535797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupekheidri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74471852185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/48640553935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemicilojistik.com/userfiles/upload/file/wijupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e211478bad---fifevejewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spartaksedlec.cz/spartaksedlec/userfiles/file/xazerabisezumebotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proallprint.com/userfiles/files/47107123264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantanalmsnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vosutojorudake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertwestlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/3776276280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea492767e9---92974362062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://standsimulator.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jozivamukotekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhartiyambeohari.in/userfiles/file/41212020364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aromamarketing.md/img/files/luwapuzejuzuvajivilulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d-a-s.cn/userfiles/file/subefok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrampetraipavlavosstanovlenie.ru/content/images/user/file/bodavokowev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/260704675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/92627099418.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_off0000d69b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD69B 18496 bytes
SHA-256: 62934283f1e3cc1378cf571786a9f26a6bf35a69a8979453a709b08a7f59086c
font_01_sfnt_off0001061b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1061B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E32 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 0431384cff853f9a314168d1d5b7d58d394ecd8a6f01768ed9b62a145830318f