Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 435a773c77115050…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:55:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 04988f22a83d4b6415307047d63ca5d5 SHA-1: a9eaa7cc17ef2c01a21bbc195f640cbfa9b8fa26 SHA-256: 435a773c77115050a3e61bfa65e92c6e684cac3465fca2c45cde259c33aee596
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to potentially malicious domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fosafutusogesu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210905060102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cualuoiskydoor.com/webroot/img/files/vipufifapopapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/499c763d7a473e51825a883a9547eed4/91782860015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcyy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2245294945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamboeng.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nowilotikeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodinovysoused.cz/upload/file/begexudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speakingaboutnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gikapebizovaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coytex.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69111167569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metapolar.hu/tmp/zawutavutorokozopoburox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/xakokepido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/94167682908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/10717918993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/depexelixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-vostok.ru/userfiles/file/44965683984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.com/file/35403412122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuoriscena.eu/file/vamud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rapn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xizovitosekatibawadobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomdythai.com/userfiles/files/30970463142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krasneclanky.cz/uploads/37933355081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susasoft.com/upload/userfiles/files/fizubesakexomopog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenutaedone.com/filesUploads/file/47285656594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b952930e98---97794110999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/33668245800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=words+with+p+in+themPDF 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_off0000b457.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB457 10528 bytes
SHA-256: e734c37740e6dbc6e29b5786b30f1ca11041b3238184c5b092a810cd5c19c57a
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e439.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE439 15700 bytes
SHA-256: a0951eeb98d21bc3779920894d309b46bd3d983f4716f7e74d80035b2004e0c1