Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 448533057122026b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 09:50:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: de3e708fa435db7646cae06114124129 SHA-1: 611bcb87ea31586a8b9c9a98ed302e619834fb2c SHA-256: 448533057122026b17c66c7f3e85695bf8fb07bcab1ac12b1d24a79ff62d3608
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document contains numerous links to disposable domains, suggesting a tactic to obscure malicious destinations. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the link farm nature of the document point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://kcde.kr/userfiles/file/32363752754.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/12629093227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.likoda.com.tw/upload/ckimg/files/vozid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upbilbao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kejudumuwarirevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkmeiqi.com/admin/ckfinder/upfile/files/zujozodofibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52188060189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/17962237188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotdeals24x7.com/ci/userfiles/files/16268952641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/mopekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanlacsclub.com/ckupload/files/rurugalepodemob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzquansu.cn/d/files/14164184556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/59056256963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-oil.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/5082885217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glozor.com/userfiles/file/jikepebakewuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffotea.com/uploads/files/202109020350124308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://customize.fr/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/Editor/file/xutazamixej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tagsu.com/attachments/fckattachments/file/88977368923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puntolinea.org/userfiles/files/linefuwomus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-pro.com/userfiles/files/2533701743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f77e2e72b3---pogimeboja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fc13f4ef1b---48753148522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351c7e52097---logekebifutiwakakuduges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liho.cz/UserFiles/File/52591516732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtaixin.com/HangShun/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91376070574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=connect+android+to+printer+via+usbPDF 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_off0000c528.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC528 16492 bytes
SHA-256: 3c495eda794ac8b1d4104afcb1bc904384d9f4d568257abed4e03686be2297a1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010803.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10803 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 21db9f4173075ee3aae3cd38d5b3c79f3cacaa6ecd5534f905a952172bd9af70