Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efb2cfbc30db9e1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:36:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 764a2d26a0713dc8f8ea184b354e5a60 SHA-1: d1869c421484eadc690e3dbec96dee98bb30fe7b SHA-256: efb2cfbc30db9e1ee9c48a3aa909fdd2401ab949384182647f1de2488325d700
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a strategy of using disposable hosting for redirection. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the link farm heuristic points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://jetaime-shop.dvsportbg.com/files/keposewel.pdf
    • https://fengshan-zhennangong.org/upload/ckfinder/files/17903694968.pdf
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/bubog.pdf
    • https://bwhe.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73194413470.pdf
    • http://miwon.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/72998929060.pdf
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4c5eb14e1---14405608415.pdf
    • http://www.tempshift.com/app/webroot/files/uploadimagesfile/weworupedasizomovuger.pdf
    • http://shesob.com/file/files/13608632145.pdf
    • https://ryokanclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_7DD8222BAC8BA44A.pdf
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/jefufitozinipirulidusobo.pdf
    • http://xhzhengli.com/upload/6745671210.pdf
    • https://self-storage.sg/images/uploadedimages/file/fawazisi.pdf
    • http://tehla.eu/userfiles/file/jabovokasiko.pdf
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/72390880746.pdf
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614144c320d6c---17863234827.pdf
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/files/xanun.pdf
    • http://torgoborud.org/images/file/kirepisibuwajorap.pdf
    • https://dialogueinpraxis.net/files/docs/rasubaximak.pdf
    • https://thaiahpa.com/flash/files/88201112547.pdf
    • https://a-pointpro.com/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pimabadenurexamek.pdf
    • http://www.arborvitae.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16253110073.pdf
    • http://floramarble.com/uploads/94177171220.pdf
    • https://slotpt2.com/contents/files/76178459848.pdf
    • https://sentinels.ro/userfiles/file/sixunofem.pdf
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210901212144.pdf
    • http://directartdeal.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/kelodizuxebefumupofufep.pdf
    • http://papienbanana.com/user_file/file/mezabavoxe.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=hacker+baba+0+app+download
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e871.bin
4e40e0d2855af7a49bc92f3b7f67e77e9a2ca2fa251d25e170efb6d2cf1c67ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE871 19440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011c06.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C06 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001341d.bin
07866d4b8a3c717cd81d92eea5950ee84307652924b05ddafce0a86c28f1019e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1341D 10580 bytes