Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cbc2b20172eb495…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 04:04:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5f0154d528d4c86efdaff5983aa67711 SHA-1: f5851d990e6bf3a477d156203631d2520b961c35 SHA-256: 0cbc2b20172eb49511f9b5cbb42a797c23a0283d8d948d433857585ef7cb664c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a tactic to obscure the true malicious intent by using many distinct, potentially disposable hosts. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the detection as a phishing trojan strongly suggest a malicious intent to lure users into downloading further malware or visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://hbfilm.ca/resimler/files/87670672627.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mishor-uvk.com/uploads/files/83559516808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarhomepage.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/kimisodebalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alconsprom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kilarisuxale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairfresh.net/assets/admin/ckeditorimage/files/neselaxujunimudip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://car-zone.sk/data/data/file/52959598020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83243213882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210910_034224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flooroverstock.com/admin/userfiles/file/wodebakewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links-europe.com/images/blog/file/xuxapoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prasongp.com/file_media/file_image/file/53663063085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtjxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210901203612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/62143433921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accu-split.com/userfiles/files/pogupedobudofomede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vcubusinesssolutions.com/userfiles/file/36147096073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mzch.pl/userfiles/file/rexebar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosurfest.com/userfiles/files/bawimanapajemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adrfarysz.pl/userfiles/file/suvigafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsong.vn/uploads/files/simaxebuvonog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be4bda77cb---botesuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/060436177594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb67d05777---53366544628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rts-wm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuritidabipibofazil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/pesasenowegelarekuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+best+movie+downloader+appPDF 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_off0000d9f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF208 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 6ab379d730e6afd7d7d9f6c1642e0f113ca3fcba356106a9916f8713c1e49438
font_02_sfnt_off00010aea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AEA 17660 bytes
SHA-256: f2d39980d01e8227e716224b579e848d69ebcd2365fcf01fdf50b1aad20ed578