Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d96ef0a19f93de4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-30 16:34:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0d011208561cd0903875810649d9e045 SHA-1: 92c82702fa4105fb67c18049b4f0bc56535f984e SHA-256: 1d96ef0a19f93de4cc786a49ea802910e865c7e1b830cb082296abfe040d15e9
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF_URI heuristic specifically points to a URL that appears to be a redirector, likely leading to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+use+whatsapp+on+android+tablet PDF link annotation
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tidofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homelife-superstars.com/image/files/daxava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niengrangchuyensau.com/upload/contentFile/file/busufib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seasonmediagroup.com/pic/file/47879810866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-group.ru/userfiles/files/wepugejopit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/21255568413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petandpuppies.com/userfiles/file/73643044100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarenpinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/72562469458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantanalmsnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kasotewotijujigerimefaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimomoroni.it/userfiles/files/58406789866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northcoteplaza.com/userfiles/file/zekonivofepurulagun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daivupaint.com/img-chamthi/files/popuvudenun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledspectrumthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pimiserokijuzedazox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b7de0d570---wazukaposaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/jufemono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/tikowulalewawibeliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivankotov.ru/img/lib/file/xidekuturaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouwbedrijfansing.nl/userfiles/file/54802894333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614730a22a706---52026476482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetovm.com/uploads/files/kimorinatimenojib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b95unoa536adofm5h.com/userfiles/file/fupusovulimikugarewun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19188427620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retco.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7049557076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movie2book.com/userfiles/file/9465661769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansonseatery.com/uploads/files/4188831520.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_off0000b140.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB140 17600 bytes
SHA-256: c5ce0a032e52bec7b024129216849ab90d9d840411337608dbc4d2085b0f2e1e
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD92 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 5a2889f904f14983b65e2ddcfcc48f132b944b4490f38a9c1c8511887270cae1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f668.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF668 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1