Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22c659adb9cda185…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-26 11:27:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 16edcfa5126ff73b04244ecd95e47897 SHA-1: 96f4c69f901eba8ed194d05d95611f4340ee7ff5 SHA-256: 22c659adb9cda185027f1b7262bda1c95c63a9eb139ace4e065646ddf6c5668a
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, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The heuristic PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for these links, further supporting a phishing or malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144e2af501f7---zodimazisapob.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/negonaxotarevivikesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mojaksiegowa.net/userfiles/file/fezom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collectifff.be/imgdb/accueil/files/jisugipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/204720642061339efb26c83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phukienbep.net/media/files/bugexunojizigisuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbolfoods.com/files/file///72850728037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quantri.thaisonpalacehotel.com/upload/files/bebegupamotanurajigajodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gres-k.cat/userfiles/file/71518463004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trouver-une-ssii.com/img/pics/files/99469407570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.omt.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/67396192845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snailgame.ru/upload/files/20210902094613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xy-interior.com/uploads/files/202109130849147561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rungrawin-itt.com/userfiles/files/gepamekewazix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/471cf78db8b961d36b648b96913da070/11107784170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biharikft.hu/bihari-admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82186976728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://napiarsaigh.com/images/89772290635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmanagement.colortown.ro/images/file/64473198236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoprato.eu/userfiles/files/86303660824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hargagila.com/uploads/image/files/30828029677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-noah.com/uploadfile/file/45155343886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/91924073783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngdongtec.com/userfiles/file/xawafabexutujitem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tierlistei.ch/downloads/69478757339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manhtreminhduc.com/webroot/img/files/fegewiworen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/kaxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+extract+wifi+password+from+mobilePDF 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_off0000b358.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB358 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB6F 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 1df14ec656e1311ef0df1a9ed80feef62e0fbccd969f872103ad5897dac787b2
font_02_sfnt_off0000e4cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4CD 17280 bytes
SHA-256: 2885a2551734f6dddfefbaf77c2d63d724325cf66a7cc004600fe5d0962264bc