Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f66deac560e2ead…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 19:06:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9bb96013046e3d1d8573b3304df5e1e9 SHA-1: 0bc83cb2551a507f1bc452f181bb1197a9d72918 SHA-256: 1f66deac560e2ead6b18be7c77489e096a2c5626d36a7697bfa9fa81f0500be1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files hosted on different domains, suggesting a link farm or distribution network. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/3668940707.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34650416816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getvisa.ru/images/File/63403025868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalbau.hu/imagesfiles/20168214329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hastensandbreakfast.nl/userfiles/file/nitedunagaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myatkinsonfamily.com/userimages/tijamud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ab1a9a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/tisifijinemumoxama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usefchina.com/uploadfile/file///2021091212082035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f9b234d50---22001004280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7profi.net/userfiles/file/xetanonojamigesijapukinet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/25129951423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santehsevast.ru/userfiles/files/30707634598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqua4you.hu/userfiles/file/pejojoxewekokewubawugupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmsz.com/upfolder/e/files/20210915215112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hebrewforreadingcomprehension.com/content/15416163796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ppk-kp3k.kkp.go.id/ver2/extra/ckfinder/core/connector/php/media/ckfinder/files/77061237382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b03413c04e---57169482612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wiskind.com/filespath/files/20210905170237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/20806328510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://molecult.metallo-tests.ch/sites/web/upload/files/8902212405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.com/file/likirekusarevare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021090720373342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/gitijirazepanefudasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jokilaaksonratsastajat.fi/file/97129305930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gourmethousemacau.com/UploadFilesfile///45187708755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pr-dienst.ch/file/bojazedividibetago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=watch+descendants+1+full+movie+free+onlinePDF 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_off0000fbff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBFF 18008 bytes
SHA-256: fa4d9119e53d5a672b31dadfac7c0e6f0d4b37ad458e63418e44411273027738
font_01_sfnt_off00012a0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A0E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14225 10952 bytes
SHA-256: fa7b40524a1a340aa787830d67cb69b02604770bed1012bdf95a8ec40cbcaa2e