Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41e1f7e576f1e877…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-23 03:50:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 06a681d6725e111bf46a550f17c33b9e SHA-1: d2d0ea5ec9c327f46471f032f51a04604dbd6cf5 SHA-256: 41e1f7e576f1e877b83bda4f2f3743e8b5bbadbe1bfaf59770265c089b98d1b6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to various domains, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the final malicious destination through multiple redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=achievers+b1+student%27s+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://studioschicchi.eu/userfiles/files/pemeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/79460705313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613618d4ead74---72590411592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhuxintrading.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20210901/16304577264835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteoratourismactivities.com/files/files/85165405528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imihwa.com/uploads/image/20210910/files/20210910081239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22a21122eb9ac99206ed48977227b616/2620161025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baiduvpn.com/upload/files/wafidusanalavadefav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17614941416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://get-insurance.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nebijijejagasunezorufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.net/contents/files/57945867998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotoner123.com/home/autotone/public_html/ckeditortest_WORKING/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21151231567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runbo.net/upfiles/files/16321320223485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalnoboy.com/data/filestorage/upload/files/lezerukugazopepudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipsphotographystudio.com/82452445578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arranridingclub.com/fwd_docs/file/litutoluvomabad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jobozobozewasotibez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-sinpro.com/upload/files/zonudasudabelevoxoneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zsmnowakowski.pl/userfiles/file/visogewupugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafjbawrcdgsodbdciig4a5v.xn--p1ai/pict/file/gotomaxawuvamodix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomayaku.com/userfiles/file/xagukoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/xamomabefikepuwibumuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karate-talence.com/newsite/userfiles/files/76325341808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebaldebaran.eu/userfiles/files/bogefegotapovux.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_off0000c070.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC070 19052 bytes
SHA-256: d26e7ae88fde883fa8be90beaac27b862382572625fa1f42b122c3efeef1e91b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f212.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF212 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A29 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 7f67a12f940dc89ac8132df880a9f3c65c62126fbc6d6e2a3c74fff435d82a32