Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f9adb08eeaf4810…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-22 09:31:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8ba811643df2b6cd6688933b9ad2ee6a SHA-1: efddc0a63200f078532ae38889568b27766ed074 SHA-256: 3f9adb08eeaf48104f18d906104edf4b5cb6d2fcb0f732dd68a7fd02d1719acc
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to downloading software, specifically mentioning 'asphalt 9 pc download windows 7' in one of the extracted URLs. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to potentially disposable domains, further supports a phishing or link-farming attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a malicious document designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

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 http://anhhieu.vn/hinhanh/file/81431397683.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82778708824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kibledergisi.net/resimler/files/mazogirupebujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/ripagufinepuxafepuzuzatit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614677690decb---83792860754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polesprogettazioni.com/userfiles/files/88942243444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leasingtowers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14407581438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potya.com/54334238392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sowlindia.com/userfiles/file/23633881610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/56331777466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunpix.ru/img/lib/file/48724568038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/13286063227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herborgthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/23519673146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fewo-spreewald-schoetzigk.de/brandenburgtag/img/editor/file/japetete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straps.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sekofisopexufabuvibawar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dental-forum.ru/userfiles/file/jezukefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macjiboter.macjahisa.si/files/file/61076034849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szguilong.com/userfiles/files/991897404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aventura-agence.lu/userfiles/files/62312721143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duythuc-bearing.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/71388626723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safedoorsystems.com/cmsimages/file/22149596519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumarecovery.com/userfiles/files/57682821797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/72704259689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=asphalt+9+pc+download+windows+7PDF 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_off0000af54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF54 14428 bytes
SHA-256: 2fdad4cbe16f093bbd866fde3a37e2414dc3b73953d5c781a253844368079911
font_01_sfnt_off0000d38f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD38F 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 761f73e414856ae6ce4d088b501b86bb780a528b13b9d7b964a2f49f24cf1aa2
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1