Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 493b77e1ed2873fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 22:58:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 549f03a4372f540ea64154e5253efa76 SHA-1: f45898a98603de19d5dc6cc1cfdae5978076f0c7 SHA-256: 493b77e1ed2873fcf69ab9344ecd0bd7431b439d7a57dd66b093bab99a40fc76
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to unknown or potentially disposable domains, consistent with a link farm used to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of a QR code lure heuristic further suggests an attempt to redirect users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 https://www.bevillelecomte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sirugomikinamibevor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cincia.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82444737203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fractinvest.com/uploads/file/laburedir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34885014961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjglaw.com/uploadfile/file/2021091418145373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161365c55131ea---dozuvupomizodinizuradino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_7DADF4EF6683E6C8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skipjackpoke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38510651723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuclubcr.com/campannas/file/mobiminulemetor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leonardscopysystems.com/home/leonards/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67719628721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsacare.com/admin/uploads/file/jivasabafunese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jujucuisine.com/userfiles/file/10521846357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/gozepafimelewojap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///gibesesubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/bajatazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fst-uinsu.net/userfiles/files/zafusupupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/bovexugonepedapajakoweriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psyforyou.nl/upload/fckeditor/file/gogafugibope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/rujunolexagumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phubozena.pl/userfiles/file/wukarigigaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/xafexatubiwatijogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jumiguworeliluboki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pietroquatriniarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/tubepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hexema.com/FCKeditor/file/20052927639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+share+data+iphone+to+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_off0000c619.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC619 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE2B 20844 bytes
SHA-256: 674c58d70262b4d7b5fe037f145993a7b332cb6cc3743641fab922885664d5b6
font_02_sfnt_off000114a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114A9 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 82c42f8dfdeb2fa34c5cfa20fe2b0307973af8f2af977f5397a6ccdc0085a96c