Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb8769b6ab2fffaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 13:06:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 59f291421250b79ca2d5a04885d7f684 SHA-1: feb9ea8c2ee78b193e1bb25b1450853e33ef3223 SHA-256: eb8769b6ab2fffaaae167252897cd29e73c9c749898b58044fac175660bb486f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to external resources, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly supports this, indicating a deliberate attempt to obscure the final malicious destination through multiple redirects.

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=situa%C3%A7%C3%B5es+problemas+envolvendo+as+quatro+opera%C3%A7%C3%B5es+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://karolinanowak.com/userfiles/file/bijomunaluvififafudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/27973203756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekopaczka.pl/imgbrama/files/38131590139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eguiders.com/uploads/fixemalipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/jokupewonuwesolatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehbo-oostkapelle.nl/userfiles/file/30993491012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vwb.mrv-educationservices.com/content_file/files/fegejukizakekavulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/55741846016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/91348971097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/konadipogikisugokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawoo.net/userData/board/file/37521841663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seasonsblinds.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sanosusoletijiwojokibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86b036868701c54bb736d8e07288f33b/sivitilew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137774b5320b---90198071101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210905_011202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palletgoanloi.com/img-dn/files/58272492598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/jetiguxiritasudome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/woxatebiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hstairan.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/45009577535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkparkkonutlari.com/image/files/xekobojarobejigeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farmaciavictoriayjmleon.com/userfiles/files/sakeweduxobodenedewufezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saconsultancy.com/userfiles/file/wusobojorilexeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmbarrenetxea.soinuenea.eus/files/galeria/files/73556957049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullx.net/files/92595644281.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_off0000db7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f391.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF391 11608 bytes
SHA-256: 5584c227a3b1ce2ec38aef1ae01ef8475a064e152f0357f5b3a9f525f711e651
font_02_sfnt_off00010e6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E6C 21156 bytes
SHA-256: 2582423c412a985ecd808c6901adcda042ca13ca33b48cbfdc53937923255da6