Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8c85fdff4ba501f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-24 13:06:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 556f54de1d1a7ad79900d6a6bbcd7448 SHA-1: afa0cde87962471f392adf50824a016369421c5a SHA-256: f8c85fdff4ba501f1353c62622d66d29165054599369958ac30501a2533e0286
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to potentially malicious domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a link farm on disposable hosting, further supporting this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9812118011.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://intertribo.sk/files/duviwubutazebomas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godahoian.com/app/webroot/upload/files/daxarubukefaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/luxifunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongphuchuytai.com/upload/files/rulofubipifadal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tranindo.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/80837009259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jirekamibogudozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flairpens.ru/uploads/file/91772095691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beyondpins.com/calisma2/files/uploads/83214556530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbyshoe.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/godubofulug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restaurant-lyons.fr/userfiles/file/63289228689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijfbacknumber.com/editor_up/repexofavadalelugig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thanaclusterwestgate.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/27044435688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastera-mix.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74879138548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wgadget.com/file_media/file_image/file/89722338484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/files/20628944770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/88620955049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cingenito.ca/upload/editor/file/90427969754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56420155554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aromamarketing.md/img/files/56218055869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dream-mebel.com/pic/file/sozidivezido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f6d5162500---50504910885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/4372905511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e593d8e087---xigadekexowopuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=city+car+driving+mobile+apkPDF 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_off0000b15d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB15D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c974.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC974 11132 bytes
SHA-256: b41da6b11bdca50accb0a7514d27bc7379549da2c80ebda5f7d21fedeffdb065
font_02_sfnt_off0000e311.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE311 15276 bytes
SHA-256: b1dc95bd1eda10921815e918f82582b40a5b699b7b0a62a9c419794980154a93