Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1433088b3c494f92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 18:10:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 09558708421a88407e8b17d04dddbf2c SHA-1: 7adc9148e256f8cb110c748fd4c7d8e0667e5d92 SHA-256: 1433088b3c494f92142b4327aed0585243f9064bdd582aa3c83bea8760f1a2fc
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=play+store+for+windows+7+laptop+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://hifitness.hu/userfiles/file/tovemunotunovebudijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albergocavour.com/userfiles/files/noluvulizakakejititoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/40728129494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/mozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standardamulet.com/files/files/zowozajidevetupare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/lafelomakudekuxekifeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xumewumanefonow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipforiraq.com/userfiles/files/tininivimebubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honeystraw.com/uploadfiles/file/23567273560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.com/contents/files/92655167523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vpsystem.com/files/fck/29712604411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ht-cooling-j3t.com/contents/files/xekexadopila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/97676856348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/16171991238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-tes.ru/files/file/41260933531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satesayap.com/contents/files/75604986883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/72279747490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0633715001630691189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kevarogibazaxixakuvifim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sibirprokat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jezimopegejawobabewabelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lafenicealcamo.it/userfiles/files/44902996937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f04da75c9f99f76609d847cef8488495/79261694350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://focalthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/xojoxigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinarlangit1.com/contents/files/kulimaxaga.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_off0000d8b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8B2 16084 bytes
SHA-256: df2378e254b19c40965858a132057d56ba2a07f01ab766eda877ab9cbc6cdc93
font_01_sfnt_off00010223.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10223 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A3A 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 05c5007d13d8f42848fb1e087f22f04a23b0067087feb02510c744d73d791ce2