Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01f05ac691a083c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 15:57:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bdac2287f35beb28b6ff10310a8cb2d3 SHA-1: 81ac92c8508b110d28911dee909a14e3acb0cb2e SHA-256: 01f05ac691a083c4873094116dbd9c16981aa71054a4ba24a506c0855b7ee785
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a high number of embedded links pointing to various external PDF files, characteristic of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially distribute malware. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests a phishing or SEO manipulation attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://sikdercollegeofpharmacy.com/scp/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/90168486690.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://festival-bg.com/media/ckuploads/files/faloxabuneluwatesowup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesnowmanicecream.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96953855401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalthailand.com/images/uploads/ckfinder/files/sejeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vattuxaydunghl.com/userfiles/file/47414159595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseowon.com/ckupload/files/xiluxudozogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://music-group-store.com/upload/files/15497208981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conditum.nl/userfiles/file/8149834358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12tiga.com/contents/files/62226095774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur3.com/contents/files/dimifexudukuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leposeur.fr/site/upload/ckfinder/files/pexekubejunemotajurepapom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danfort.lv/userfiles/file/86276390734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66376500748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nifasasuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/tomepababedowef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rapn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39110814117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/zewofugukutisizujakin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39464641144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiriosrl.it/userfiles/files/254582592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markjfox.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/petazojokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altus.pl/userfiles/file/getugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cravaluos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/belinefomugivaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvezda-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tejabolaxesexubilese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://montpellier-business-plan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/gisorujetedikigajozaviwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/161429f5e98694---xinatoramox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=fortnite+download+in+phonePDF 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_off0000d819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD819 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f02b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02B 18384 bytes
SHA-256: efb4f487ed9628ff70d86dcc491ddfbd08a820a3ec0d1e0303b14ca993d7cdce
font_02_sfnt_off00011ff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF9 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 31d748c9131a7d7f1555d7bbfd2737328bd737d168cbb62277cb02d40ecf16ae