Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef9ba259dfddbe4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-23 18:12:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ee0ed6ce3edaeb28ad717e168ca2368b SHA-1: 53366e548ef9e63de9bab84087e9f8b6fb10033a SHA-256: ef9ba259dfddbe4ee0d9290a6a4e772ab02acf32ba8cfeb12e30627d0b403fa8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious domains, suggesting it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the document is designed to host many links on disposable infrastructure. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+summer+in+a+day+short+story+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://khonggiansangtao.com/platformecom/img/upload/file/jujilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweddlefoto.com/files_contenidos/upload/files/8110572396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unicorn-furnitures.com/d/files/sifatirifixesegowivoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.org/contents/files/firaxuranegesikoxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrampetraipavlavosstanovlenie.ru/content/images/user/file/23119855637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmangroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86786748479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/64886297078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krusomying.com/data/file/rinekodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownfallschurch.com/uploads/files/bozizoragetevebovivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146416352905---sutupawibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sualpturizm.com/userfiles/file/40839663503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.biz/userfiles/files/2570604685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seattlebestteriyaki.com/uploads/files/rusase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hdurmuslar.com/images_upload/files/3652716402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/74937126560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crmsaas.dswip.com/ci/userfiles/files/latusuruwelidiludi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pathtojanna.com/userfiles/files/6684126766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrasvilla.es/uploads/files/63257884540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/xekazolomimusizazirojon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designclarf.it/file/guwezezosurijujunazit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.net/uploads/files/4990236989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/ridonafevag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/sanedupolobebosimawapus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/62675459840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/xafunexoj.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_off0000e58e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE58E 18712 bytes
SHA-256: 9277262824a450edf8030ab3a20d89cf70e80fc814928d0e222822b6ee3e69cf
font_01_sfnt_off000116a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ebd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EBD 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 8954145945edcc3cffa1095b322b70c39899cfe29c4e12ef24c8d2a00d185360