Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa8cad82043a1b44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-24 19:03:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 24eb6e1e71b7119f18634c6dc13a0b67 SHA-1: ef568d498557f3dabc220e341a87416aa492ec8a SHA-256: fa8cad82043a1b44903ca1214d8c4a91797232178a48e655336fc4dc927046a5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and external links point towards a common phishing or redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd32ff7a84079d8c0f21ae9d65be8db1/korena.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://extrastyle.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poxotuveteximede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckm-machinery.com/userfiles/files/kapomixinoxovuwipurorepaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poliinc.com/upload/files/zawuziguba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maternites-catholiques.org/ressource/site-image/files/zuzinowudusuvovadovijej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/poderodivuzukilak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/xomubojubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f6dc14aee0---47718098734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolbandibileklik.com/resimler/files/82892421269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wieswioska.pl/userfiles/file/93226166401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airxps.com/userfiles/files/sutudezodiwitepowemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/bafekumixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-11/20210911225422598642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/wolodewiweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/kivawutefilobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/jademerawizufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecargonepal.com/userfiles/file/fadaziloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poetische-malerei.de/web/editor/files/88370543945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolecasetta.it/userfiles/files/8750121389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dgtrans.co.th/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wozutimabizaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmuniontravel.com/userfiles/file/watebasizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.humillacionyestrella.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nenelibejobejerazoxekit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/romuzakazutada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/madezarune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/18513704911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=strategy+and+tactics+medieval+civilization+mod+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_off0000b4c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4C7 11264 bytes
SHA-256: c37330de026ed36f47515be7cc77519e0e0a0a640bdf7feb120b5b7ef69538e3
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF04 18100 bytes
SHA-256: 5b09e84e34f7d1cb0209b25bf02c45e12b5d67439647fb53ac8b999954db9606
font_02_sfnt_off0000feca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFECA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1