Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef89de4a8c6aedab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-29 03:55:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 5379e93a61db93ce277eb1a4ddd1d55a SHA-1: 0c76397e21fce9880bf027310f7d5da41ac3b10e SHA-256: ef89de4a8c6aedab5574aaa816cbdad0005221b0747fade84afacb57dc63ceca
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to form a link farm. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious websites for phishing or further malware delivery.

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=paint+3d+download+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://spcinternational.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30791115549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulsantour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_299396888BBFB4A1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumevivo.it/userfiles/files/39998534663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vurado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafagidisijiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151e2cb92d39---38344118190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marmetal.cevhertemizlik.com/userfiles/files/jatesepusikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lulanjina.net/upload/files/gidomokudopakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9ab4340b54f3a1ba563a54404e84b0c/68102002261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vattucongtrinh.com/userfiles/file/tevopebunogirezolug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speednewslive24.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/20728574127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202109230657137526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maiodi.com/userfiles/files/sowuwexuxasir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1acf/files/file/lokifijusabod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/mokunufamekiwuredokobegiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestwingsbeltsville.com/uploads/files/wibejagusifinamel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fajni3333.fun4two.pl/uploads/assets/file/muvereremijefuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/12327839483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehfermobilsaglik.com/userfiles/file/96407866436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razzledazzleevents.in/userfiles/file/bamolemirizabososurepom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peptidturkiye.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25994197318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bamupeluvumolaf.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_off0000b0e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0E1 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 66a65306bb700cc8d05a647b36dfc58db2dd4f16a1d5e7e2236b6c0fc81dbf5d
font_01_sfnt_off0000c83d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC83D 16552 bytes
SHA-256: 88b0a6e2b5a5936bf2fdabdbb32a8b112e9b7b3d4005617bda44fe3428a590d0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f163.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF163 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1