Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef6be657abcedbcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 15:26:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ffa5a8151d140d7fe9f1f381b210c0b0 SHA-1: 89a114047c8f7fe041a21ef9c39ee46a26f724aa SHA-256: ef6be657abcedbcf241d27f04f0b92a07ecab3226e2d664fb3d3cac28a254444
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs and is flagged by heuristics as a link farm on disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a spearphishing attachment, likely leading to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/sazupifupawowotozaxaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kozelsk-adm.ru/files/uploads/files/43800336908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/labibibulitum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdauvietnam.vn/upload/files/29817810084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyo-g.net/userfiles/file/93571634261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/vawavopikexowugeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newhorizonscrisiscenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dorinedafodasotomiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapacargentina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nevulepudutofikapugozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/sofirakaxeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletmodguru.hu/files/files/1005220644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130736770eda---nikukewezesoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saluteebenesseresas.it/userfiles/files/naremoxujiwopezadonojigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingpoggi.eu/userfiles/files/31042217054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaitofu.com/image/upload/File/mewijaruse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/20656585577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57942187703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultemergingmarkets.cubsindia.com/files/jugaliza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134b77db279f---zimewisuvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euronuts2009.ge/files/files/60123210957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galerie-louise.be/userfiles/files/24254415466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30091996231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://struttur-arch.it/userfiles/files/71138916800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=boxhead+unblocked+hackedPDF 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_off0000b52c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB52C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD3E 14836 bytes
SHA-256: d53d36bafed752820502da0b1c2d9ee6d206d369e6ed5ad07fa90cf654aa5cfc
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BD 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 20ab785bb0d2b9b2cafa53bb3dfcbe92e778d3e6a49b30ef687763f6691bbeff