Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c19675a429984d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 14:50:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9fcc3b8ec168a9bf92a3dc1172d9e202 SHA-1: 103ce3dbd66d4530575b7eb4dfb3e708cd9dca24 SHA-256: 1c19675a429984d4b2e10e7793a7f0fa31287c1ff4c82041c69c4985f80f2812
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to unknown domains, and a heuristic identified it as a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. A 'download button' lure was also detected, suggesting a phishing or malware download attempt. Although no scripts were extracted, the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious document designed to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cam-ceeds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24892893368.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1374cefe9dc3e9d81fcf1caf1cb29b9/rifijufipogapevegilexabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elrey-uslugi.ru/media/file/55000123544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shrlie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903052003839175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssp.by/var/upload/bupegubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karolinanowak.com/userfiles/file/dulaketivapusevabigoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.larche-de-jules.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lajesul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studiorosaliabusco.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/munuled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lunaleo.pl/userfiles/file/tilalajawafefises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neksav.com/upload/ckfinder/files/fenizidaderuvojofilazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanlinh.vn/upload/files/julive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb31f19315642bafd1ab099934406708/50937291376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torby.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45863186825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieterheich.de/images/uploads/file/82182307398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aordonez.com/images/contenidos/files/mozelibemuberutipazutuxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/babug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc028.com/userfiles/file/20210906104556_7pugig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toocapen.com/files/jorikadasagufosufimazigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30539129438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://net-marketing.hu/images/files/sebulekawesovesaxavuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/vosalimudoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscreen.in/cmsfiles/file/49111037612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oiseau-bleu-morzine.com/userfiles/file/32045421049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/58532627826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+note+2+update+downloadPDF 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_off00012869.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12869 18984 bytes
SHA-256: c03d0ee1ad8ba5bb0c67abd596f51e03cda91303e162e05dcf4583a88ee17fed
font_01_sfnt_off00015a31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17248 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 2569bb01bc6aa088f75c9c14786b640140d416109a6578eee6a33251265e142d