Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fec47ac7a28e663…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 18:21:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 863dda6c29ff5ba7ebe4be93aadde40e SHA-1: 48c0084870fec5da1143831dfe01c167ea7e3ff8 SHA-256: 1fec47ac7a28e66322255391adb8f08e19d52f70df4b45e6ac69da4c2438949e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are likely part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests the intent is to host malicious content or phishing pages on these disposable domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://gillsandgeckos.com/userfiles/file/modomigako.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341a9f1cfc3---5581799919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb02be6b7992701623d67e061dc20fb5/81340667518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://treasurehunterdetectors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/relije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mueblesgamez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16470247983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/90172033384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/3195557416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietrocknet.org/app/webroot/img/files/71402975429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/xoromokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proreferee.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/7924778136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unitez.net/images/newtech/files/zewedixibuvilotanimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalace.net/app/webroot/upload/files/bapevijuvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.es/d/files/benefono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szolnokepul.hu/userfiles/file/30412009600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/texofegijapixadigipejogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogomanhnghia.com/uploads/files/35567902862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serge-valentin.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/naxeloxowirusafafaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67120868654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samavetpharm.com/userfiles/files/89896240595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieta-plus.pl/userfiles/file/5289810572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/33761524095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95402098322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristaldicarlo.com/userfiles/file/bafunorisazufoxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aedjtjdshbf.pretty-match.com/upload/files/87937536600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmfegypt.com/userfiles/files/35495673048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+disable+chrome+on+androidPDF 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_off0000f396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF396 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 26efa2450e30756b342bfeafdc577acfe5e9640c5120e456e6104cbfa09b2ba4
font_01_sfnt_off00010c7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001248d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1248D 18936 bytes
SHA-256: ceac8b5a0a79894e89643ab16b9f1b3377df0745648353643eec51dbc1d95bd9