Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20cc0390988ce5a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 14:34:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e16da58de59900e878552d571d00ad84 SHA-1: 276ed38624aa6c4cca395d5c547414a5b78b235c SHA-256: 20cc0390988ce5a1373fe8eee39ebbc750c0f67addcd71a647153dea69533d62
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using numerous small, non-clustered links on disposable hosting, further supporting this assessment. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the PDF is intended to redirect users to malicious sites.

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sun+tzu%27s+the+art+of+war+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ageofwonders.buka.ru/sadm_files/wamelijunaboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbmhavacilik.com/userfiles/file/nototawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://take114.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210915_F8B20CAD59286E50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingore.cn/upload/files/38357692432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.com/userfiles/file/mopituwivuzolonazixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.net/uploads/images/files/bokobanati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firesecurity.sk/userfiles/file/vawajuferiperamomagudofug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karaokejdi.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/57306039945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.com/upload/files/vuwuziduxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.civilhospitalpalampur.in/img/uploads/files/fugeruju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopron.ru/upload/files/43434955141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designerhouse.ru/upload/files/kurol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artgallery.devctn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kekudipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aiddhbkcq5bcaz.xn--p1ai/upload/files/gigilapilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivankotov.ru/img/lib/file/56152354830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/29548011765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/54780757419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/maderutododuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc23825db158a4e34b74d715f0e53c3e/22621576022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-him.ru/userfiles/file/kegaxelej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd248c5240---fatofadegumega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualityroofinnandsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/dabedus.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_off0000b3bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3BB 10812 bytes
SHA-256: f1dc5c20b89db240de4b8f8b7d9fbe98bd5c632dd0cb57e314dc925e2c37860a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCC4 15580 bytes
SHA-256: 2287773206c23a8c7340b9c90d27864ed1d688546ae92d8e9b99aecae07ce76b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF446 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1