Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f96e5806744fc52c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:24:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fc1edd8b438b1db1160e74eedb901f31 SHA-1: 7248ac95ff27a3637f266d20724ff1490ed3fe46 SHA-256: f96e5806744fc52c9f7c6c2ce5c1f52deacdb2c057b12bdc6e7d9476b9723ed8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wheelie+game+unblocked PDF link annotation
    • http://inspeq.eu/public/files/38801597401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-baby.ru/userfiles/file/43628583405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukkies.be/userfiles/file/zevilisorinetel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apnschool.in/singhania/downloads/file/27941298181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thementalhealthadvocates.org/files/userfiles/file/9021030143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/gexefokijuzitokepixebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rojimelus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613af85388492---jododezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabbeleecooking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kubetupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612efc8503b77---47170084589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victoryelectricalsupply.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kojogabitavusixukawifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/20219131251174061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bliznacite.com/files/59514957009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/wademiwopenujoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmcp-avac.com/files/upload-ckfinder/files/90621753430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventsistem-bg.com/userfiles/file/worej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ocptecnology.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/96621680539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnm.tw/uploads/files/202109160431178170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcp-ranstadt.us/files/60461544815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopiergentili.it/userfiles/files/52027032079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-summer-courses.eu/upload/files/86697977850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korvet-sp.ru/userfiles/file/lajad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birdwatching.sk/media/file/62323457103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aorganboys.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/dedijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heyratacademy.ir/file/kumos.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_off0000c97b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC97B 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 8feaa2124cce5ef10411bb6190d977c8a304a314a01f0d321edeea0ec1656a14
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D7 17656 bytes
SHA-256: 64d1c5c62c841e1a431f1bc8e64c29a18893d4d5448c85673c176d181b5a7194
font_02_sfnt_off00010f7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1