Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f88adb4a99147af1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-10 07:53:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5f91e12374c4fb46f5c24d9ea14a461f SHA-1: b72358f4fd9e6b944d50b6859dfde983aa7016d5 SHA-256: f88adb4a99147af1a137431c29e7d2b11e907c1b812a29dff1cd808242c4563e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous distinct domains, which is a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of many unknown URLs supports this, with one confirmed benign URL likely being a decoy or part of the link farm infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/nugibesowarivenuvo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/15394345715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladekoservis.ru/files/15420788919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mofrantech.com/userfiles/file/gepovajubewuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sklep-pinokio.pl/web/uploads/files/75903560867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/sipibuzixojorewukasuzozuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abcelectricalonlineshop.brilliantwebtech.com/userfiles/files/makomafotakotikusiterer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/17984513347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longbeach.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/butejenogulazonajazed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kp-bs.ru/upload/files/80125921206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yeosung21.or.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631145045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijtm.in/userfiles/file/kawirotusevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/mujigik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warwick-ems.org/userfiles/file/babowida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestofbeer.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/natejugosotalimulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tktravelkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_133BDB3E609AE544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613add10d639a---sududigojil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakaruinzinerija.lt/userfiles/file/53522878454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop/contents/pulopokiserisuwinikelenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161323ce38c4bf---vutumurikureven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterky.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dujutapiroxivuxuwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marasintl.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/konebiwetamosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmvlpslimited.com/ci/userfiles/files/47107758144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/1596111902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brno-skoleni.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66324914709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/84822337307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=confusing+words+in+english+pdf+exercisesPDF 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_off0000d834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD834 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f04b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF04B 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 2ef806f2f36dc0098ecd2b3f3712e6e99f29d70f27561afa85f55e2d11e1b587
font_02_sfnt_off00010985.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10985 17520 bytes
SHA-256: 8e9edb9915586d53889c4d8a86afacec713b23401161eae3428c8184dd38ba99