Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4319faf6a431e64f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 11:02:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b8895eb65222dd59ec37c41ba5249f2f SHA-1: 527d0499f578b4b7bd0d7c1ed594e0ffa2bf4cbf SHA-256: 4319faf6a431e64fe73c24ff75d1cf7f328e34134babb37437dc2d968097c833
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 http://hoya889.com/upfile/files/20210911112328.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e15b41a51f---73227163165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seghers.kr/data/editor/file/684510495613c36981237e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/suvotiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/88794645435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shortguycentral.com/ck_uploads/files/wadekipul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64853177402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/52357113538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--oy2b19v1mb1yi.com/userfiles/file/42676658051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/revonanerugedalire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kifenimofojun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilartangguh.com/file/10212138353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/3693249023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hylimusic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/28217860802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talesma.com/E/file/lijuzurazoxabapemumaken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/55376063594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lean-ds.com/upload/editor/file/mepafelazexitupexuwire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/liwibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.globalnautique.nl/upload/files/duxibujegozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namkhoasaigon.vn/web/images/files/62609553962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/69447122006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ctbguteehkho5h.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57067498945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/mopudoniwifozirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hlqh.net/userfiles/file/20210904151132_1932303723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/3688405405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/24521485902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=optional+product+pricing+strategyPDF 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_off0000bd03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD03 10928 bytes
SHA-256: ecdc72ad7fcb6ca914d29c9f2c903f9a2b58ee29b229d34085a90b1b6d0a5b8f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d64a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD64A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE5C 15904 bytes
SHA-256: 2a491c4455ce79f2e2d275eb8b5bbbc63589d9f4f8c96c1d19cab873de26a88d