Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14bf47b9f5641eb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 23:34:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ed378adcb0734e0d0bf4742d6e8561d3 SHA-1: 93b6205b80aaf0eec450bb0c5509eafa0a47e89f SHA-256: 14bf47b9f5641eb703e1bf49c64c4c038c2c2a8bf274b139e2308fe3dfb42a18
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to what appears to be a link farm, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a setup for distributing malicious content or phishing lures.

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 https://vinamex.info/uploads/news_file/mirizikaxoliwenelinavaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/81906952600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertcomptablecourreges.fr/michel_courreges/userfiles/file/94621729393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/9456346288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinijewelry.com/userfiles/file/8095937122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbev0bhje.xn--p1ai/images/news/file/60309030517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136328176bdf---48805929579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fra2ange.it/userfiles/files/82319659391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moristas.com/userfiles/files/ferisokonidamamezeked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getrade.net/uploadfiles/file/7878267707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portaldeaquidauana.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73761784160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primariasantana.ro/uploads/file/ladiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/68575756160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://znalac.com/userfiles/file/76301907968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yigang-lin.com/uploads/files/202109041335537105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/refezukodukuganazepibejez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gkia.org/kingkong/userfiles/files/kibumewunimidorivudunuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23970361173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvssteelex.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8325340533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekadc.pl/userfiles/userfile/pekekiwujudekesutemekoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visualarchive.bg/files/22433195013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/fewolizukowomozimaded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogozaty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ropagafiselefefuvojebazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/xivezazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=android+3d+pdfPDF 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_off0000bc53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC53 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD465 17008 bytes
SHA-256: 50030c81a5a8af4e36c3274dcad6092df421954bad5f7fcfecaed94350c70de9
font_02_sfnt_off0001003a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1003A 10036 bytes
SHA-256: 3e5b83597ea61ee67d264d84c68d49fdd764fdd0d8cee5b90479495f20e7fb82