Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e892f6cfc1d66320…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:05:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 9e0d1c8a0071ab6d4388fffa6e61878d SHA-1: 158989aeb7d13452b1db4473d8b6708651a36e13 SHA-256: e892f6cfc1d663200e77d2b7df5efe943a8c897535f1f95e055593be549cd595
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The PDF contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on various domains, with a high number of distinct hosts suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, reinforcing the phishing or malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://korovin.org/site/img_ufiles/64193277984.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ceylanotel.com/firma/files/37996673050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hig-hegmann.de/userfiles/file/22319582838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisefarmersmith.com/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fodiboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oolong-dining-co.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/segasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crcnueva.naturasoftware.com/uploads/images/files/furikatoweren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.igescanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33643132760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khyatiinfotech.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55782608609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semineebrasov.ro/printuri-fi/files/timisafevajumilujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161441e892576d---8882115198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quetthe.com/upload/files/18286586534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funke.be/data/file/veforuguvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itscebu.com/upload/file/20210917164644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivaldelmaridaje.com/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/wixazarofurufuxasepudedej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naphotelbangkok.com/userfiles/files/fokimedebawone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/9677803747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morganmethod.com/ci/userfiles/files/27895441220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/davugikuseserug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminenceconstruction.ca/viking1/uploads/files/ligon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambartakip.net/belgeler/file/duxojetagibesanube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-group.com/upload/files/6091850069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahnil.com/userData/board/file/34294953735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bbmnetlicitacoes.com.br/cms/ckfinder/upload/files/pixudezodade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleschimmo.lu/userfiles/files/93770091180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=uncharted+4+android+game+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000caa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAA8 16736 bytes
SHA-256: b2f62e91b8be2d7391469d6720581a7b9e95711cb45440a6003d0af94f8e8bd4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f632.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF632 11056 bytes
SHA-256: a2f6d458edbf3f704f733ef989833c221d02df30b67db72489ecdaaa86dd21ff
font_02_sfnt_off00010f9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1