Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45f3256312f51744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:14:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 47faf6e7ea612a53a38c778ed9235e1f SHA-1: c72114b80e26afc01b5e52fe4de9d2d134ce91b1 SHA-256: 45f3256312f517443f2bb66028a3bce7557b1ceb529b0c306c5ca45f442827f7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file 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 external sites, many of which are hosted on potentially disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of external links suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://zhuoxinlaw.com/userfiles/file/20210903020113_274089928.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://d-a-s.cn/userfiles/file/7866206944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/nejezijepafogokofivoroba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://career-id.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pejuvig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iword.de/userfiles/file/41609632887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/buzujepaxiduwizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ans5680.preneed91.com/upload/files/wafadakowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210908080043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.multilandtours.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sitifexerujuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/9013343127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://96662888.com/editor_upload/file/49815236781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holycrosshealthcare.com/userfiles/files/62804320058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343af29b4e0---87397714765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahnawazonline.com/uploads/files/wugudizulenuwoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202109082047465801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevgineslianaokulu.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/62966267065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhimaninteriors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/labovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguraclutch.cn/uploadfile/files/16405416371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/rugefolofujojejivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.net/contents/files/20281982720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/16123551872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ih-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fomupewunilube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laundrybyconrads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zinejobonubal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akgoz.zemta.com/uploads/files/tesag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=spreadsheet+application+examplesPDF 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_off0000deb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB0 15784 bytes
SHA-256: aaf04fcc8c47bf482edde329cfed0d1b21c0c45d60488f29c44ca0dda86a5da7
font_01_sfnt_off0001070b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1070B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F22 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 62538490e2a24940d0cffb0d686de2d1df5991fc8867043bc3154cdb226155be