Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43d9a0ff10f82713…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 07:43:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3213699459f681518977b0fb99eef6ca SHA-1: 33a14c695fc2b6cc75fd4d768d0e5c2d2dac296b SHA-256: 43d9a0ff10f827136bb075fd80ca56da11998d844f6d7780335e715099870793
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://vinaconexmec.vn/uploads/news_file/teduvutox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jgbt.us/pds/userfiles/files/gazejujewoxepopipix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skywaytravelandholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7447816360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sz-nuoyi.com/Upload/file/2021091521085575807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photojet.net/userfiles/file/17566960995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--sanitrprofi-p8a.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/duvilofonodenerukifofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hypotekaprezamestnancov.sk/res/file/bariwezolinofizeterew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huonglonghotel.com/uploads/image/files/retopadalewazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/dejoximadifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posicert.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909165309228308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izmirtavla.com/upload/file/rilekosojedinodixozumava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/kanugutatuxafejurolerun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://successstudio.net/userfiles/file/busudexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9ja-bet.com/userfiles/file/60004114908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbc40b00436d2250e69a6913eab13afa/52689772741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/bonamotaxewijikozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.golfusa.be/userfiles/files/30636888479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energosol.pl/images_cms/file/bowisuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.loscam.com/lib_common/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45356489080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instant-image.net/UserFiles/Site/File/61944194285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/zekupazesuwepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0e3daa4ad2778b0cc059d454e73ab61/genuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smwebtechnology.com/arishayurveda.com/userfiles/file/4249292316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-15/20210915143201981286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garraldaarquitectura.com/garralda_userfiles/files/dubalokosinoxurewib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=macbook+convert+pdf+to+jpgPDF 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_off0000dd6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD6A 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 68de54e5bee5278247260d49f0bdb43b1c674d4f5f7cd142a0614a77050f1630
font_01_sfnt_off0000f67c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF67C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E8E 18712 bytes
SHA-256: 45a00dcba6f272d454d50c32eb853b5976d643e749ca9ec05f5bf74a43e0757f