Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09903f81d5e91f13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-09-09 22:26:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1e8d4610c5f9cfff437b910bf05ec725 SHA-1: 25407b18189313fe2c1038921c2ac5bbbef32093 SHA-256: 09903f81d5e91f13687610413b97a16fd634c1813c8c1096ec5503209ffdf532
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tegeku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://learnrkbin.jugalbandiresearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kotasebogowadon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hatinhjobs.com/upload/files/timumeremivule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tareeapartment.com/user_img/files/xudozisututuvat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatuchlina.cz/upload/file/7653620036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevale.us/userimages/wimufuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panova-art.com/files/file/7883417710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/zapuseza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zonojufajunijekigixojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaizenlife.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kelagemaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.org/contents/files/xomalewaxiditonem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demenagements-remond.fr/userfiles/file/20210907221102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/bamusivanavinotox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e56ptkchofmrp5uok48vvmkuks/jemat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/34763118668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/39874003310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukulivermore.com/uploads/files/rozulisikimewanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7af30cccf507acd0852aef88d3eaca11/zuvegefup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbasantresidency.com/uploads/41578697286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festacontinua.it/public/file/demupupefejokeponefine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art4you.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/68666483185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flixgolf.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54428157066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/xisibatogukimesoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zopos.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68586627217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+root+android+9+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_off0000f2f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F9 18588 bytes
SHA-256: d2f772de93eaa90d6fdce703f2dfcfb006f3ac2d9629e58fae7973d111b6c99c
font_01_sfnt_off0001238d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1238D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ba4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BA4 10520 bytes
SHA-256: df40448533bd01c594db53b4523befa13d381cef2f93731bb0daa93c239c8200