Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 294abf9fee1dff09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-10-13 07:51:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 8de6b757ff8992f91f9942552af28e5a SHA-1: dc322f2505cd48db35d6b888935ea6bc5f7b55d4 SHA-256: 294abf9fee1dff09ef2aae28ea983f7ea567bdd388b0bd8daa6bf56c69da19a5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links pointing to a variety of domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this is a malicious attempt to obscure the true destination or distribute malware. ClamAV also detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and link farm indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://www.poole.ed.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gamosidubasulimasovaki.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pjzhengwang.com/upload/file/20210911_103538_175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varida-tech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44837834629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/topirami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.com/userfiles/file/kulikafudaniso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuanvietnam.com/upload/files/93702389292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/vapifekabimebozazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfaaa.com/UploadFile/file/20210918001913191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inkjetartandimage.com/Uploads/file/kumibofabosuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/92791816700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaynhanh365.net/contents/files/xugobukiduvepes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyosushilohaus.com/uploads/files/sanubeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/76312953030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warwick-ems.org/userfiles/file/44359918958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/86556100092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ac99c66d13---jejoxuwivotidunewoxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nitdgp.ac.in/uploads/userfiles/files/muvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skulpt.in/admin/uploads/file/savoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/userfiles/file/17550722956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipllaser.in/uploads/3829214314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58750119916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rujiahk.com/uploadfiles/file/talebowagosefiguwurevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maskaevlawyer.ru/userfiles/file/zamesuxanexovadugovim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inunekocp.jp/mailmagazine/upload/files/datuxezunuvenenoxudiwaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kejevipizolage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-golfclub.com/ckupload/files/vuditoleji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/HTGXzuRVGb4/uplcv?utm_term=hs+code+for+picturesPDF 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_off0000cbd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBD6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3ED 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 2cfd7ccabfb71c7d0fb5f30ce584dcc4a2fb850a7c7027c766809a6898695a23
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8A 20140 bytes
SHA-256: 047cfa708e7bfa33b8b89c3c72ce50fdda6fc4f3d64342c8ee5d3af760beb742