Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fab8b199657fc933…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-29 05:52:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: c5338c8ea42e93e0ae9ec8e7866873ea SHA-1: 41b8fe9fb24aa0dd54f6c228c2776f7c816a3157 SHA-256: fab8b199657fc93334b1f23aaaae4438fedab8ef68f52b93987fcd37aa296b87
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to domains that appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The heuristic PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM specifically flags this behavior. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of many external URIs points to an attack pattern focused on redirecting users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=uba+online+learning+platform PDF link annotation
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/wexunizufizanazalaluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/6809753158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghibms.com/userfiles/files/wafimusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haihengpharm.com/upload/files/84853527776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrocare.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43874519097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basketaci.cz/UserFiles/File/58225093734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhdrum.com/User_File/UpFile/file/20210914022743_c2l3b2JheGV6b3JpZmV3ZWZv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/57912129149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bivosamibimosijunozet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sergeisurzhin.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73839859081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/1026777607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c6c809c664---ledinipadatudizilokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/tejeletagikulekelidoxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwhouse.ru/uploads/file/28110801557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheers-gifts.com/userfiles/saviguvikapakoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elfobchod.cz/foto/Image/file/25366479759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsinc.co/userfiles/file/nadejotelopurabibiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210910115332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modern-pro.ru/files/file/64381685316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/banoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.info/file/11527932308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/sakijij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dixikomapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novena99.com/uploads/files/202109050054075284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/91330859900.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_off0000af11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF11 10680 bytes
SHA-256: ed556936f391b790bff4734a4a486b65cb8a38f902b9ab983dc1eb463820c00f
font_01_sfnt_off0000c757.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC757 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000df69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF69 16176 bytes
SHA-256: e3d4886bae63def20ca37d6d0b7286bd07edc3ac026093eae65bf18194a3e58a