Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3e2aa97a154b426…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-24 18:58:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: aebaa214143572d6f64a9447fb0f8ddc SHA-1: ec529735a485eb961e7811fb96a04061cedcbd70 SHA-256: f3e2aa97a154b426afc4187644d63f5d304732d2c557a1a9be4a2b779d6b7464
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files, suggesting a link farm or distribution mechanism. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically identifies this pattern, indicating the document is likely part of a scheme to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the link farm heuristic strongly suggest a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://psn-monolit.ru/img_file/files/36712603012.pdf
    • http://hotelbellevuepalermo.com/userfiles/files/xorejafazivurafinumituwow.pdf
    • https://likeevent.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/poluzobagopitad.pdf
    • http://dpsszczytno.pl/photo/file/58047821314.pdf
    • http://www.vako.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/zekogamaxemara.pdf
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143d8948f6a1---65355385989.pdf
    • http://seednseed.com/admin/fckfiles/file/66087418499.pdf
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/datotif.pdf
    • https://cingenito.ca/upload/editor/file/13324677368.pdf
    • http://serviphony.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/phpimage/phpimage/upload/images/file/19949058258.pdf
    • http://net-marketing.hu/images/files/77106049298.pdf
    • http://chemonova.com/FCKeditor/file/85234677489.pdf
    • http://fredericjean.net/oplusco/file/1679668476.pdf
    • http://cyclad.org/UserFiles/file/4096954533.pdf
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a6ca244b2035784908bcb0ef8990cff/76787946972.pdf
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.org/documentos/file/90933707292.pdf
    • http://wimborst-ceramics.nl/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuvomawisuxiraru.pdf
    • http://bekescsaba.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/notugigogalapuga.pdf
    • http://sb-78.ru/files/file/17772115907.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=best+music+player+for+pc+free+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_off0000bbb7.bin
f0f3cd22120446c9fcb66a41768c8f8bc8fc39b9453138549bfec5f91fcc145a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBB7 11136 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5ca.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5CA 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000eddc.bin
ba8a81da1bba7a8983436de524d6c78a6300ce861bbe0b24eebe260059a2c225
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDC 19424 bytes