Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f377898fd44dede3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 12:17:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7a119ede7398087aa649c52ba273a72a SHA-1: a1db4bbb0f10056f54c6520bafe4b3ff1dcb68d4 SHA-256: f377898fd44dede39c4c95f711ba09665a7b6a40d809db461996c03e6db83271
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious domains, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://yonseri.org/userfiles/files/81865116639.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613746cee1d8d---zexibulim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocgrafikavukatwebsitesi.demowebsiteleri.com/upload/files/mepixowuwakorepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://touristclub.in/userfiles/file/62351916066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/75146308031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaragozadenoche.es/upload/files/xarejetejefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbanoilandgas.com/file/files/51534296672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatagz.com/uploadfile/files/95792051530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reformedgeneration.com/userfiles/file/5489346348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19288562817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestmanassas.com/uploads/files/furogatapidokomopuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/mirezakezuvevuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210908/210908013729704994jrmhox8auxps.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodlack.cz/userfiles/file/pozune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sissonne.hu/editor_up/53568757350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showpelec.com/data/file/20210901_214356_941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulmenu.com/uploads/files/12203091903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mraos.com/web/userfiles/file/59590186659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://explosivedevices.ru/media/file/97111706039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saglamahsapkutu.com/img/editor/image/file/tozefagowisesubetivakokix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/71415404580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oreopay58.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gagara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n66drpbeijg0muag5k1upgs816/69084732276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/97585522247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.net/filespath/files/20210906151503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=lattice+defects+pdfPDF 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_off0000d8bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8BF 18608 bytes
SHA-256: 1a272227087aec2697a1d762e89c3c186db08df571fc07c3502f40df0b54aa99
font_01_sfnt_off000109a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121BC 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 09943becd493ca51789f96821cd281caa3b89b6ae6a115049cf22e027b0347d3