Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fab633c381b7f332…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:38:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7b886cf23d1b29fd46ecf7c74c4156a9 SHA-1: 84342dc05963f2d0d0de2d048c8d281deca07b53 SHA-256: fab633c381b7f3328690ad3269d608efcb08def1d5c274a1ca2f50607bf04d41
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure itself is also flagged for containing duplicate object bodies and external URI references, further supporting its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pillow+thoughts+3+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/vevujisufojudazujiwowexow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/gejelod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzky.cn/dubeite/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210916_070355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/1944513810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkuys.handysociality.com/upload/files/bawexamupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://powercleanperu.com/cms_powerclean_2015/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/52630085849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orkoien.com/userfiles/files/bareveguwowef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/37276058135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614533cb6ee59---jokitudofinabelami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pimoxarigudokozixoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiostocchi.eu/userfiles/files/24678609592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interstudy.net/userfiles/file/74934980622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontaine-eva.fr/userfiles/files/sexejixiwunudido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tekopupodazixasofil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://35ju.21tg.cn/uploadfile/ckeditor/files/sujizupadufabigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/25885608813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vilus.cz/userfiles/file/sumuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://come2menorca.com/images/file/jimugatarelofijava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spitalmoldovanoua.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82752163926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zilalcooling.com/other_files/File/jepegakuwuxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wubuvamoxepomavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396bb6a3366---2462087180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinostandards.net/upload/files/27325979774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvelyrikoscentras.lt/Files/file/wosowulasumuk.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_off0000c946.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC946 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e15d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE15D 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 300184c372eabdbafc38a90d19d8697907704de253d41f84d7f5b013f2284fb3
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB33 17792 bytes
SHA-256: b0120f4d2283ac6e687e1b7fd646f9e97a05a1b3fc5b8097f62d6ab9f21d388c