Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c99a1f94ca9243d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-10-03 03:01:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: a056e6631644a49bc26c526e337e849c SHA-1: 4d8255d5bfe2d1ae46e19bfcd5cf115b80b7639e SHA-256: 2c99a1f94ca9243d2f816157dd1eaf83a621ba9eb2df5270802aae11ab29218a
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. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and the link farm heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161419fd9229bc---36402231674.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sauminandy.com/fckimages/file/tirimugagumotolerex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://standsimulator.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63389546995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/93929320623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvanthanhlapcongty.biz/upload/ck/files/777961334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141508bcbe46---bivitirotagirawamud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k85shj16h-561lt.com/contents/files/zapotilosowegesukemeporix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/58838343440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prasongp.com/file_media/file_image/file/72387133654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/80871715330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tpijobportal.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wemanenapefodosufulox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.com/files/87024621788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaiminhhanh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/83005034414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8948903441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galerie-louise.be/userfiles/files/xojakubajimijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodluckfishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34740188240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhhieu.vn/hinhanh/file/26701724577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iknow.pl/files/file/98660305529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtualcharityevents.com/vce_cake/files/files/fijojagogim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/Files/files/87976378233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/wiwegisika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents/files/winugodewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=oven+baked+spare+ribsPDF 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_off0000aec0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEC0 10444 bytes
SHA-256: e74a64602990175662977767d5b637e83d1874699ce55d8e8164da9e9ea51287
font_01_sfnt_off0000c667.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC667 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000de79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE79 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 779abc6514c3466edf527652e9fc73d6ecb419304d1e7fb6c098a0a695dfff6b