Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef8b56f97856f386…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 16:02:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: c44f9d9ffc7f16353be47f75824af276 SHA-1: 329cee9303ef89efedd50764de2ce2a60a481d82 SHA-256: ef8b56f97856f3868e42259f9d68b8a1d5d398dd2f46eeb26f7a92290948c99e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a strategy to distribute links across many disposable hosts. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the PDF structure suggest it's likely used as a lure to direct users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pro-roubenky.cz/UserFiles/File/takesupixab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://prochem.vn/images/uploads/files/lanibawosimavixebawavek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkeweblongan.com/upload/files/93835616879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://embody.box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sidibebonume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/53828235759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-brno.com/files/76158073118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/48828287880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/kefuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taigesw.com/upload/files/19415805110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vssteel1999.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/peguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiu-hang.com/upfiles/editor/files/satazew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/fisibepex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihappywash.com/uploads/files/202109131811194799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eniedu.com/data/file/20210914130242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc020.com/userfiles/file/20210913034620_gmshh0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/nudinunuduvonaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4e2603107---69857817783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.com/admin/file/wezijuwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshow.com/upload/ckfinder/files/16214879916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eapver.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109081353311421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161404e392d4c4---32754803788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-ural.com/uploads/files/metefavajonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138168d26c85---24611370341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/59758648603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=asus+t100+androidPDF 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_off0000d8a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C0 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 999a346f7ad532b8d41eb6471d2aefd9c7325008d723a9e3144bf948f5d9c3bb
font_02_sfnt_off0001082d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1082D 19900 bytes
SHA-256: 6256b50eb3c7b37efd113c2e2d00403fcea099c1cb43d17b65e719cf18d0ab28