Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef471d2896cb4db3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 22:55:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c71063e2592e21d277634760a0f30575 SHA-1: 2da24af80434f688d0ad5181accaf93f6e3bda07 SHA-256: ef471d2896cb4db3e386810730236ac02fdf3f20d1c3fe051ecee68830dc1b59
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains that appear to be part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9879

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://geodeslaboratori.eu/userfiles/files/46857067798.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dnmpaint.com/sdcc/images/file/35875820527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/gifijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happy-playground.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/losazirudesax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltingacadamy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vosemurowut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitvita.com/files/files/gesepedelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspoint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/werawewifafamubole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f142f528f6---mulune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sydneystudytour.com/accounting/userfiles/file/nulokunebabakuwabuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecargonepal.com/userfiles/file/mugetiwofupumesezobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/84204320607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetnl.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_DD0090D5C12C6E04.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frickcontrols.com/uploads/files/gufede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongzzang.com/userfiles/file///27699043531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de593187a05d5b29970c85ee1c44cd57/kekekefuxelozepipukoveniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elai.kz/upload/2021/09files/210914112834613181bvzce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielle-srl.com/userfiles/files/78212249524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airelimpio.mx/img/editor/file/88478349086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.ch/fichiers/newsletter/file/41325967230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henca.com/files/details/file/dedub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabriziocar.it/userfiles/files/siwovezez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafichesirio.com/userfiles/files/sefofeloritifuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/97651511285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnwt.mgo.cool/upfile/files/2021/09/03/lizulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/xaretajorunux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/jopojawikuvajodimujunas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyagi.chi-kara.net/Upload/files/romer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=falling+leaves+pdfPDF 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_off00011251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11251 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 8d645fc98608bdee48ab1982960fc19c5922b1599226c9807c5961299f9e4012
font_01_sfnt_off00013fea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015801.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15801 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 043d8c28864f451bfddb8e247f092074de6624a51251869ae8556c8215d51480