Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23da1814f3e3fae8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 05:45:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8d0e787e886370e9f925263d10fbb636 SHA-1: 6cc433162e811bc8ca653b90fc21ab6dbf760f90 SHA-256: 23da1814f3e3fae8e842a3f21756e18348c3293c41b2c34370ed2e8c1b827656
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on potentially disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL distribution are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9902

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://bischofs-scheune.de/userfiles/file/bezinosefotatosoxotogu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hoanhaochemical.com/uploads/files/vakizuxetixej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/99834532535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alhurwallpaper.com/Files/files/fofoxixazonakute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrmkaryacollege.org/rrmkarya/userfiles/file/mubatezipowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fe69b966bc---20695125335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59103239512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/koxufatejirut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vsrru.ru/userfiles/file/wuxixinenalekojatunuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__613DEB87E362B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booking-news.hkdnracing.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/vapufuzuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auswallendorf.de/userfiles/file/funoxewujoved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosedreamholidayhomes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufositowarozebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fd454dd620fc2c5b60a1d8d204b3e38/zisuniwinewuwixolulen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/93179781387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbg1ddpkdc.xn--j1amh/uploads/files/18817924132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxstep.nl/userfiles/file/36947244651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prabashproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gituda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ronaldtan.nl/images/photo/ruxizamula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrbrentacars.com/files/others/88847073124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/45576705605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verner.lt/images/files/68844875899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=where+the+wild+things+are+book+read+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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d1ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1EC 24124 bytes
SHA-256: 42987565e0b830f06858013a78d081667c3a15339b9349203e23f2b92024312d
font_01_sfnt_off00010d84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D84 10840 bytes
SHA-256: e61f49dff37d3223d60b3a6bd27d1e0a0a074bf715c1387c6e539d493228ce9f
font_02_sfnt_off0001264a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1264A 16244 bytes
SHA-256: fddcbe21bdf9fb2753729b4ab5b26d7a3fbb01e3fe51d41ab0725360e25c189d
font_03_sfnt_off00013c2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C2F 1784 bytes
SHA-256: fca9f8450e1a544ab43b6b7fbe967452567be0f6c717d6b9cf2fcf5323db9044
font_04_sfnt_off0001449d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1449D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1