Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7c6efdcc2b27480…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-24 10:38:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c522bcc2f6724f1e77f0c034c230c579 SHA-1: 654b29ece22915f1485c804c0da157b3d502fd89 SHA-256: e7c6efdcc2b27480080396d8f10acbca01b7eb86fc9e41807a8c83d4c00929fc
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm on disposable hosting. Multiple PDF links point to external URLs, with one specifically identified as a link to a PDF file hosted on 'superiorservicesandsolutionsfl.com'. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=live+lock+screen+iphone+11 PDF link annotation
    • http://lifebeachvilla.com/uploads/image/files/45055722650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ku4ysk-9lgp4y.com/contents/files/34320112966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.terresdescaraibes.fr/file/75113631008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abyss.sk/userfiles/file/76324252630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comitatoamiantovelodromo.org/userfiles/file/42092179117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlantidegattico.it/file/60538983980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superiorservicesandsolutionsfl.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/40187061664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanjarbek.uz/userfiles/file/87981171037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tranhdaquydep.vn/upload/files/40919291590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanyangsteel.com/files/fckeditor/file/158515051261393d8e1b59a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsite.vn/uploads/files/niluxibadowuvobosuxigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamnanyno.com/luutru/files/zajifapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiozoppini.com/userfiles/files/84210661012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/55800703593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oa30us.com/userfiles/file/vebesosakovonaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nulifeus.com/~nulife/userfiles/file/patewobifeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyvale.com/wysiwygfiles/file/waziduwuzovobibad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomasmrazek.cz/userfiles/file/26229405228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7foro.exceltur.org/exceltur_nuevo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruratika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqrainternationalschool.org/_assets/files/nuzozuzadobofanitorubuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/14276817920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otohondamientay.com/upload/files/luwomezitifutawamoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limeitec.com/upfiles/editor/files/niwubipopelasofupagul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laserinnsbruck.com/static/bovubaletikikepov.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_off0000e0ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f906.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF906 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 4badb1474aad06234cb53ff847b83bd3e569c90d6076b48ca55ab3d1bd9275ca
font_02_sfnt_off0001106f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1106F 18208 bytes
SHA-256: d53a40abdd37c659c1b56c68a866862ebb9174ca1870e85997c7832fb30a054b