Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 240e6ccd16393480…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-10 21:32:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8b9c0267adaf132ae02ea3fc4e776f91 SHA-1: d5cc530aab5103df2d820cea38cfbbc465a74667 SHA-256: 240e6ccd16393480fbfd4fa1b5b9ef9fe190c03e6bdbea245439cf9ef47d8e3e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, embedding a large number of URLs that redirect to other PDF files, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://8foro.exceltur.org/exceltur_nuevo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43429688077.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://casaledellasignora.it/userfiles/files/63084217306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vouchertiket.com/airplane/ckeditor/uploads/files/91509680135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/71985885097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerekagy.hu/UserFiles/file/85398012136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brigitte-farner.ch/userfiles/files/jigekot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f1-rennsimulatoren.de/userfiles/file/goxoropudutajuliniwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44400963310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipssecurityconsultants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viziranomezivijatigudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/93690558333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-publishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22784019132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/wixulados.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioioto.store/upload/files/28860137726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nwdglobal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bizafajulitominuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/90454132521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210905140210430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatagz.com/uploadfile/files/91920166147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/58104944670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fasleh.net/Files/files/65202522721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiantalentjunction.com/milan/media/12651387762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsmr.us/userfiles/file/pezewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rapn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34978434619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c05ec2226---83570135337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+connect+phone+with+wifiPDF 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_off0000e368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE368 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB7A 18272 bytes
SHA-256: 953f881ee7db328225cf935697e1d03df3bd2fb8ff22c29ff2731f562d4bc2a0
font_02_sfnt_off00012b34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B34 10176 bytes
SHA-256: 1cd6870616927ccb379f88b283867bfae5a7a5f5d59a7a4640934228f0fceff1