Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16578a2585354cc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 13:07:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 445dbbefe506a1df6f6a92b4f78e64a5 SHA-1: b251a2cb736205430b36b14030251b68141658b0 SHA-256: 16578a2585354cc679c599609a775dffde27ceab5e1587085b0c51356d21a10d
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 external URIs and is identified as a link farm hosted on disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this document is designed to redirect users to 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+play+store+for+pc PDF link annotation
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16722063572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/2021910021374564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heninrealty.com/userfiles/files/58721346849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theexplorerthai.com/userfiles/files/49995417606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hertzlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tozofelaterixijilapubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-kitchen.ru/files/files/79971652761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.com/contents/files/nakagifozanasux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebco.ru/images/file/goxatolejikim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demenagements-remond.fr/userfiles/file/20210912003736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/2405866168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aqua2go.pl/galeria/file/begivepokixisojukolil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lunaleo.pl/userfiles/file/nupozolobibodepes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheliabinsk.realxenon.ru/uploads/files/nuxorigozirodamukedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gizaviation.com/uploads/files/mojaxilobexazuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kechengchem.com/upload/files/xujukanamakumunolewoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/ruwuvifoxizojiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4nbik9datnsg144aiqqskev90m/80214447050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungafilm.com/dorceiys/ckfinder/userfiles/files/migivijodujuferumurese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5rkonvdtn4nh53jj3r0088d1io/vavinudipoxelekujaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210917012241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.com/aym_image/files/28491621341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmany.cucoriedka.sk/data/files/nuzugosizifaraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khonggiansachhanoi.vn/uploads/files/7903714958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bojovesporty.cz/userfiles/file/motudokolosedonipatufew.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_off0000e134.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE134 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 70b90148a899dc1af4f87df5bda989239a45990c60b7490e23ae02489f8adf84
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110EC 17824 bytes
SHA-256: 7c6c77cea33503846e20203f7861612b0df2b7f7fad2312ff8a74fbc290f0fea