Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3667849ab335ec6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-29 10:43:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 28cce3943b9ff0ec72bd3343b6d1894a SHA-1: 0e26c92a1ca72a97e60417a04abcbe34a24c7376 SHA-256: 3667849ab335ec6b63244a75b3afd2c1e759f2b6f365c69bb186db6ad05feaaa
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or used for hosting PDF files. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests a link farm intended to redirect users, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+poster+maker+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://pantipplaza.com/userfiles/file/22769337552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameradungphat.com/uploads/files/kepipasifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushimura1.com/uploads/files/59013976996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/kevofakukowedusanudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alompar.hu/uploads/content_files/files/38864034364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/nebadevuwagamulelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkuys.handysociality.com/upload/files/limedojemeturagozurizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.com/filespath/files/20210924060218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asacnfservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94908814494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vr-spagna-20.effievirtual.com/galeria/files/xetem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-echen.com/uploads/files/202109011108513257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolbandibileklik.com/resimler/files/18757451729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanhebiotech.com/upload/files/26768871284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/kegapemajajivixuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giorgimpianti.com/userfiles/file/66613961170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neurooperations.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44592732685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/beronoxarojokevesovasov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/wirepasutiwuvepewegiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhorder.com/upload/files/30138127804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/25674260574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynhuagiasi.com/Images_upload/files/76529556063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39d99db1adccd7bd7115375569b30492/8772496418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagm.it/userfiles/files/xetevibiminado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fertilityupdates.com/userfiles/files/6066097963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4x4autok.hu/userfiles/files/33030183139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b306.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB306 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 661cbb231348639f7e99c5b924e2aee2858451ba8344ef3ff91a7410d7e3e676
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBCC 16528 bytes
SHA-256: 9e3d4fb94aa05f16d33bfac078fdeaff8147a26be41a123b3d2a574e8e73162c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF620 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1