Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f81a6d057c2e1b0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 23:14:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2189aaeb11d63fbdf870f433c7887979 SHA-1: f35e96bd9bca8beb2b130f7ba0dcaa1de4c5222e SHA-256: f81a6d057c2e1b0e5e51ecc25968b2154a85214ed8dfe879b4f8a1d01bb0ffd1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, as malicious. It contains numerous external URLs, with one specifically identified as part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the detected heuristics suggest this PDF is intended to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=backup+messages+from+android PDF link annotation
    • https://solturism.ro/images/file/10898653849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuk-amro.de/userfiles/file/79300297522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friulanapanini.com/images/file/gujanowegolurawidowid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bctlorraine.org/userfiles/file/42922926198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.fr/php/rs/filesupload/file/betuledazorozolowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imdmotors.com/uploadfile/file/2021090909084183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmorshomecareassociates.org/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/68026533656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enricobarraco.com/files/zefebufapesuxapoveroma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137d0f50b996---pivupefofagujusifizexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/durebegojapop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rmgoals.com/userfiles/files/25635863930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emiem.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36501676129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finemetal-cn.com/upload/files/roputamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barbazan-debat.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taramabuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hockeydh.com/files/ups/files/90156376971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portugaliaimagyarok.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/befewalegekogetadefubened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygiftltd.com/userfiles/file/ginikujorafonixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jj-metals.com/userfiles/file/2021091712134673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161314e6938c17---minezoverubegiletilikawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psn-monolit.ru/img_file/files/lezaritatuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maketmaster.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivo-mebel.ru/upload/file/fatagudilut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mewebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/legatidetufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ebenisterie-burette.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dujivolopomelekotexeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-21/20210921102539204408.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_off0000c8db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0ED 16580 bytes
SHA-256: 88d4ff05dd606c7d20695c2cc8e829471d1b570c56bdd1d8e0c92b80e6aa71b2
font_02_sfnt_off00010b84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B84 11064 bytes
SHA-256: d806b1c285b0a887d84b149f433c33340b1807463c15008eb83a296257f9f0b9