Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee2757226cd9eb58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-27 14:12:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a20b1c08eaca56f689ec94cdff147ce6 SHA-1: 25d14c162bca6089e00131d225ee1294c94f2f27 SHA-256: ee2757226cd9eb58d6e927f0e694885081751170a09b03bd293eb63382a9de8a
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing or spam campaign, indicated by the high number of external links, many of which point to algorithmically generated URLs on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is designed to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+turn+a+video+to+mp3+on+iphone PDF link annotation
    • http://marleenjansen.nl/images/uploadfiles/62607388474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourhong.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210926_2FB261B331D00796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otestmanager.com/club/data/userfiles/file/20210908181138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cpsguffanti.it/uploads/file/nufufenedegiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesgo.de/userfiles/file/14259102971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseowon.com/ckupload/files/tosusepiviguzifavuferuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-liberec.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suxapovuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciacogliate.it/userfiles/files/19597728420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wotelisabinemifezodup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagerunda.it/public/upload/file/47586372765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erulingua.hu/uploads/content_files/files/5590262429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenkochaya.com/user_data/ckfinder/files/divogerom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariobubiniregini.eu/userfiles/files/nimukelodabajetupobora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanamachine.com/imgUpload/files/japuguseloxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vevujibuvuveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/83749254804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhandmadeitems.com/userfiles/file/vimor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/xoragulokuwapegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakanhurdacilik.com/userfiles/file/79739463820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/rovifutinuwonobumeserol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrkanuch.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/56791863186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/tegoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mjrspot.com/fckimages/file/rebegonutadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613005592e40e---poponusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oawebserver.com/piceditor/file/82704717728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkmarine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631506044.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_off0000b171.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB171 16548 bytes
SHA-256: c0cbe17fef73405a396f0f9e54d6f473f2e53c2cf5f5191a3ed3ea0537142ac0
font_01_sfnt_off0000db5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB5A 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 0578455584c0f13d4782d3f49ffbfe67b07a22434940768b46c08e403d4b258a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f43a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF43A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1