Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 314a3a1c13105912…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-10 18:51:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 055731f03a21b40ae4078974fe937158 SHA-1: 10564715d6436bc873327353a3b52d5db28108b2 SHA-256: 314a3a1c1310591224c503a0d04e39aaa3e0cacfca725fe601f245fc0c5c57ef
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one heuristic identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The presence of PDF_URI and EMBEDDED_URL heuristics, along with the ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://coytex.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2711044916.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://photo-ostrov.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79560568505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xutricolor.com/uploadfile/files/kuxisagikusabur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-store-sys.com/userfiles/file/58012057944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210904031416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trivio.it/userfiles/files/kupeninuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://middletonchambers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12888580469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wordtmann.beckbauer.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/donawuxununa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astefin.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piwiwivegekewupesuzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/kojorakizesutetata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132a4c187102---tedenatabewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockycheng.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pesorop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibliotekaszamocin.pl/img/upload/files/66384775162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wx-bm.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109100410481767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalinmobiliario24.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/masujumesedisesiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384e1403c93---zuxodamiwatuperowari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xhzhengli.com/upload/65436437829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagymester.com/userfiles/file/gusunos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jinekipitilimuziteka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torby.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xitenokipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/14995795723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativecoms.net/userfiles/file/27572651600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cecev.com/stockages/files/54475754649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basse-normandie.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69557806301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.ca/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/ramuralimipodelefiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=filmora+mod+pcPDF 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_off0000c325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC325 15956 bytes
SHA-256: 61feba105c0a3d86f33d246c05a69c0d3e2e7ee95ca4b788b8ae06d270859692
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000103e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103E4 10152 bytes
SHA-256: 56a43797bdf6d8c1a8024af55616816aa503c9499f9e3e1111fac8cfe64b9975