Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8b2679a3d0ef105…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 06:36:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0e43500da4b39478e4ed63989074f418 SHA-1: 63c749e0448b95ca0b5fd299bfdb0bdae05ba3e1 SHA-256: f8b2679a3d0ef1053dc80497cac468171d3ef762f11f1ef86c4ec3be091d1202
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links point towards a malicious lure designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+watch+after+we+collided+free PDF link annotation
    • http://chinalabware.ru/d/files/93459885546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b42157be9---wufexolijetekowewaribi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/89479063171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/88457948816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///39722030082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadirumshootingstars.com/userfiles/file///54150183880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136bcd793207---19774824135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isvpro.com/custom/files/40333836513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/20358267574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escritacontabilidade.net/fotos/news/file/sabev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rvhifi.cz/files/file/fixepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dojopenuzagivolezawexuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulns.com/uploadfile/fckedit/file/16315747317wca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210912_105355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonblainville.com/userfiles/files/17814994605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rallstarawards.us/nbloom/fckuploads/file/sevibefuroxixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/2067531581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanomanberjaya.com/contents/files/36693175733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30816103045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keystoparadise.com/userfiles/files/ragoxubaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclubbiz.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/79144422553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogledalata.bg/uploads/pages/files/55357427156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klick-tipp.at/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/44773431309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/48709148850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/37078092411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/jopepegerutebatuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aledrukujemy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23997453971.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_off0000f618.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF618 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E2F 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 375ea6b29a1c8b1abdc110e43f3f5d8b9668b2db673d3d18c2686af6cf316388
font_02_sfnt_off000125c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125C4 19260 bytes
SHA-256: 7e4bc54e6ce09f8502a7f9f377cca34b7239a6645798d22c33c882a7c2a0ac6b