Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17bc22a5d0bfcd85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:43:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: fb4f55c2a6826a91890e8bee993894fb SHA-1: 9ac6c27b862f57b673312e4e7377f266acdb4390 SHA-256: 17bc22a5d0bfcd85c7dfe42df6c6b81f7bec7f2dc66857d3a62df521c440a0d6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the numerous extracted URLs suggest the document is designed to redirect users to a large collection of other PDF files hosted on disposable domains. This pattern is often used for SEO spam or to distribute further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://sinhorelli.com/userfiles/file/vukotijitawusuwigox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.workbythai.com/admin/assets/images/xexililavufopinatunopevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technoarc.net/userfiles/file/64581233962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natursany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fusonekapadolotirukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurodegranizo.ar/noticias/fckeditor/file/78757759266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiecarriere.it/uploads/file/58150206653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f325088512---fajojog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/99282224561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofagiani.eu/userfiles/files/jibivakametot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91a315012693ada5f136f793888f3eaa/lirubewogirut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/befazamogutubemafulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210918085222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jajugroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1230499995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiajihlava.cz/UserFiles/File/36857651278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stigstudiotecnico.it/userfiles/files/bikanivisavoleru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icnj.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42917292102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaputlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jisowemez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/fakunegifevigovorolovaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2-view.org/home/view/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zenew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aguito.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zalefitolawulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevian.com/images/file/kugezewudarazuzelinabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domesticsolutionsagency.com/userfiles/file/56807414156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/kenudoturopekukipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestpokeya.com/uploads/files/77690226104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuonghieutoancau.vn/uploads/files/megubexifiwarobezuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=bester+android+emulator+f%C3%BCr+pcPDF 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_off000103b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B0 11124 bytes
SHA-256: aceef99419853bf9ff95f2f4b3fc600ce9cea1309ecf7d764cea1a6074f77189
font_01_sfnt_off00011d61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D61 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13573 18944 bytes
SHA-256: 0750822e1a5f9012ad3b29dc0f2973e72577635aa4e71e67c3dd731afc1b62f7