Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eac3972880193dfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:27:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bbbd797f05001c97bdc5556ce643b40a SHA-1: d911eccd11116c33daed0437f04e1f9162aaabf4 SHA-256: eac3972880193dfc6616b39ffe3e7f4f2f45ccaa928809e1c767e09c106c3e55
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external links, with a high-confidence heuristic identifying it as a link farm hosted on disposable domains. One of the primary links, 'https://childrencareandliteracysociety.org/userfiles/files/20176294432.pdf', is flagged as a random URL. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a lure document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=video+sticker+maker+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://childrencareandliteracysociety.org/userfiles/files/20176294432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tocbirsen.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gositavuzozinodopat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161325f4f082b7---kokuminotumakanifowolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigondome.com/uploads/userfiles/file/77433633087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/97256478553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://087334211.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sigisumewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatvan.in/userfiles/file/97164840527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15cbdd9cab078c837f0db5fbf4e46d4c/20837053382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthlantern.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/getifurazuvufaxijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newworldss.com/uploads/file/99394677839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.it/userfiles/file/fonexapuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/suwebufuragoredefupawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluitec.fr/ressource/site-image/files/jijunijajurawobujokure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokalizacja-gps.pl/userfiles/file/49982889803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stagelight.pl/userfiles/files/nesurusuwesezejugiguwoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twgo8.com/uploads/base/files/202109121428578119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graveyards-fuj.ae/userfiles/files/gasaguramuzumemeneti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ariogalospspc.lt/userfiles/file/82879984977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioaba.net/userfiles/files/67345495676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86067777106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccarrentals.com/files/file/64742770024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/welawagoselur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rubapi.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_off0000b4c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCD9 19436 bytes
SHA-256: 5533a30e54002d8a3e64f0a91a79243845a12c9b1f7ec900366a4c7773f42935
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE87 10584 bytes
SHA-256: dafe360e42b411e9d920a43ded776f78e71144e16b1b05857bdbf2bbe0070b7c