Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c5d079ca7578804…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:15:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 258a8cf1e6e32b76c638022caa5135fd SHA-1: 1e4eafa606a37e6282fa35c7b91d306766d653c9 SHA-256: 1c5d079ca7578804357090cc2f4e2494a70da77527a8548fef37caa1bb3216c0
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with a significant portion pointing to domains that appear to be part of a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users. ClamAV detection and ML classification further confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware delivery mechanism.

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 http://kingbikeonline.com/images/upload/File/10777831426.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aaebajlcgx.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/detexedunefesotal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peiitw.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/dokutafuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/zipisufovedizejofufopifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cb6605143f---zaxiruxopofizinipodoxepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ranuzukiwidumalevefapesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://araprinter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kakekepegojomedabunugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingprocess.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/punuronawuxusijiramoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeorden.com/media/file/54906933064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tukilufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anticacarsulaeborzoi.eu/userfiles/files/34517174109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotelbg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/44485493799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanedantoptan.com/upload/files/63302263145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efckrakow.pl/userfiles/file/mumopadej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avistravel.ro/userfiles/file/tubodafevugesabudodoril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zxpgw.com/userfiles/file/84696623052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/seruwufosepesapikani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosung-gulf.com/uploads/file/4046564029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_E34FB26678AAFA5D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praktijk-fix.nl/userfiles/image/file/juduliguzavuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/16166859542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jl-vacuum.com/upload/files/3765156697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318fd0c5842---55706430665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harposwebdesign.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/75617403762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+introduction+student%27s+book+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_off0000dbed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBED 18892 bytes
SHA-256: dc9b215ecde4222493957ed33948ba27b15a35ef4b10d3bb8a5eb1647ecd9bb1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123D8 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 9fc8a5eca63c782c9dae27ca9965f022c295848b85ba906fd7f7a00fa4e26881