Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43a7785ab9e8b20f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 05:32:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 88f892348dfc607b5ba54ee64989fd4e SHA-1: ab35cd3de31d34e409c2e935a1ad8c95213afa95 SHA-256: 43a7785ab9e8b20f5ebc65dc6b72f23e71ce03cd7f8a3972e3300c0d4cc9135c
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous embedded URLs pointing to distinct hosts, identified as a 'link farm', strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also returned a high confidence score for maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://mlight.cz/archiv/file/58156965067.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tlumacz-lipno.pl/pdrzewiecki/files/14692642182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscreen.in/cmsfiles/file/bizugavanewubuzupeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/235071589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131692070b74---68193400562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rolcsi-bau.hu/userfiles/files/fuxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plise.org/userfiles/file/84515933574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/soforanujuvopovixuruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84220587555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestsearch.in/admin/uploads/file/kerigozajonejokutefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/vugukobazilurinelatopodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assytekservizi.com/userfiles/files/buvigitasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/6623533199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comp-art.ru/userfiles/file/97247846099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/tesipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/76844572993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c253c1a9bb69392b9d5e350f2018a170/majekaravujijunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.serwkom.pl/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5432696003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoyisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tepuvugetezedugoxoluwakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/niviledebaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912114442523431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/35316840804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toocapen.com/files/67196535985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/7761651301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.astmalek.cz/obrazky/file/91236118196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ui+automation+tools+androidPDF 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_off0000d9d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E2 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 98fab0b4dba9753ecc00648f6fd73195eadeea17dabe289b9143ae5052f4fc85
font_02_sfnt_off0001207c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1207C 10384 bytes
SHA-256: e6a7f362814bcc5837a6d87d710c3a5c00e38ba0680e6079b06cdbff15a02313