Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e27e7527b6cc4664…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 18:01:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f32b7649adc4649ec2cae9f89948e4f5 SHA-1: 09660413f773ed07433ced76720b0a5e9cd59592 SHA-256: e27e7527b6cc4664a137b61efb83186225b2911cd17ebfd25bac7d137b9ff733
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or low-reputation, consistent with a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of PDF malware often involves JavaScript for obfuscation or redirection, hence the inclusion of T1059.007.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161357a740cd4f---resip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://spzpoz-zdunskawola.pl/upload/file/jimadogonunixivigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennycojewelry.com/userfiles/files/202109/1630851547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hygradeinsulators.com/images/uploads/file/dekomipibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/ratizawamota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://music-group-store.com/upload/files/xofaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lineshare.net/upload/files/20210905164939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/mitajurexenoxonitor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carmakers.cz/userfiles/files/75541341424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicasoftavukatwebsitesi.demowebsiteleri.com/upload/files/setelemol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nevjegykiraly.hu/userfiles/files/wegutedukiliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demo-calson.garment-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jafen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/midafuwida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.poliklinika-hb.cz/userfiles/file/lufomoxozawoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubesquilacoma.com/uploads/files/reweradomejasemeroxola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135d7067ea7f---mitaxujanigapikipixave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgardening.nl/images/file/73362354274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/73641495997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitecoreromania.ro/files/file/31592082051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoeing.by/pics/files/labefasoxegoxuxibixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88724399457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandishoverseas.com/UserFiles/File/wimimeximevofezipetideruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b11kh5l.com/ckupload/files/bugufewibimegikupukup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/kobipegesofil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=nfc+in+mobilesPDF 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_off0000ea3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA3A 10252 bytes
SHA-256: e962ff84f9aad709a24c040db5cc0435638066ed41766f50a44144a814b923fc
font_01_sfnt_off00010133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10133 17568 bytes
SHA-256: f8afc7cce8bb0d03d4b53057198be299fc2c82a52eb4cce0fd61cbe1dc4aadec
font_02_sfnt_off00012ee0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1