Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe249bd776432a4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-10-01 18:52:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 1099fe3fe712c2d86551acebd0619d93 SHA-1: c73f28bd34dfe0ed28224111f882cd9f1f3137ce SHA-256: fe249bd776432a4b1b0d4d6b8d393f756c55eb77513e36fdb73d3c5af15a24bd
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable hosting and employing UTM parameters, strongly suggests a phishing or link-farming operation. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URI patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=o+yinlar+android PDF link annotation
    • https://soi.icami.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sorutobevudukazujitajok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americandeliorder.com/uploads/files/ritegumeforawuxasag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pay2pay.net/upload/file/84997064374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesherisrael.com/uploadEditor/files/gagibizid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jszl-rolls.com/filespath/files/20210912121159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfse.co/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1632543590_b0b6c78acc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka54.ru/upload/m/taxamuluperuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/userfiles/file/kogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manuale.aziendasulweb.it/userfiles/files/gilixatigetusizokiketapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/17148595332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42cfa4ewb0a0b3fwh.com/imageupload/files/97648679093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms1oke.com/contents/files/34056534597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozcetinler.com/userfiles/file/pafuzuzomoxovugabidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/50964468744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161515628b82d9---zuzomugogidejuwumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gjbbang.com/userData/board/file/videpakajelupapizajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52f21aa16b3cd015d5c9a2d594c33a23/93874584176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stagelight.pl/userfiles/files/winagudise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/lofuvufojukibilojafezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retta-bg.com/userfiles/31215357172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/mokozadesaxoropif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.com/neu/userfiles/file/jopepivekunepeloruxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/53526728439.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_off0000b01c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB01C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c82e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC82E 17440 bytes
SHA-256: e5c2fecc1e2bc53279c2e1ec7cf3c9dd11de85f2d709d5379cd9f91de142c034
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C8 9980 bytes
SHA-256: ad352ea3fcc5c857b5397d6f48570c60f62297f49bbb00d0e9fd401d82b12bb0