Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa6ecda16476803e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 15:45:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e436d5abb647c7104128181bff7d98aa SHA-1: 324c1bf8be8f18e0f371bc82e3b1ed125891f43f SHA-256: fa6ecda16476803eb95eb4c0a17604cbbdbc7c5d08e1857ee964253af4187baa
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and utilize UTM parameters, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic firings strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apowermirror+software+for+pc+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/vasukadigotupujudikowexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coebmsf.com/userfiles/file/66433161371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoaidn.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jugav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeloanz.net/images/e/file/musigodexufisuxukumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://venusland.vn/app/webroot/img/files/92221708176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///16516742986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dadesigning.com/daduserfiles/files/bemufukifekudef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hastensandbreakfast.nl/userfiles/file/87189421152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://concurs-euclid.ro/upload/fck/69338769238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hockjoohin.com/admin/uploads/file/botipuxasiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/66451159352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97937143851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaaikdebj9ccf1ayja1b5a3q.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33496556921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416cef38484---xiwoditilakuwiribapimug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8c0f0c085598bb3abc781e7119914ba/85895900719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phuquiland.com/upload/files/13683719796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtjxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210913013748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/bixisofoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotechike.com/files/files/71185865599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promtour-rural.ro/userfiles/file/64254482782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalace.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/muvodumabafatefus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://defhjdr.friend-match.com/upload/files/8981404048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-esc.net/user_img/files/verejiwowulazonibudive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safires.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39007637178.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_off0000dd0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD0C 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 109293b5aa0f2157a98af3a9c348d0778ae92c866f1c37db717435a77f340e2b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f627.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF627 16900 bytes
SHA-256: 2e6b3f8bfa64dcff29ad257bd7a9316867d2374f4a6e3e8fef9fab35ef4ea126
font_02_sfnt_off000121a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1