Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bccf6c183b10e1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-09-10 06:07:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5ca3dc17d65f66a85c317270a6f60442 SHA-1: 01efd5e9a3767de3d2f613e60c31ae84cd9a0ed4 SHA-256: 4bccf6c183b10e1a91b193d830b733751803fc431b81dba2679443830ed7b83b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one heuristic identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

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 http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/34538400055.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vivaldiroberto.com/img/files/mediafiles/file/40050514215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaabrahaoosta.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54286391942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olboihorgaszto.hu/editor_up2/tefatajelap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16560437555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtamgiasuhcmmq.com/uplaod/quangtri/files/79050609075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emotionalgift.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61490124077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prodomasa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2314353111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteservices.com/FCKeditor/userimages/file/dizasifor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/fetegupufofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dade666.com/userfiles/202109file/2021090414073270554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/kisogiderulodizasirowege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozgu-yapi.com/firma/files/nifedipaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dastone.ru/userfiles/file/27066709489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ammk.sk/userfiles/file/51442776114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.com/userfiles/files/takabezexume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/75219835379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmsp-me.com/userfiles/files/misokojevunubodatugivid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/98138555717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qeyeoptical.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wogurujufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloodfaces.de/attachment/file/duxero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369b5359197---jegulagitawanaroxorijem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagrupacio.cat/file/96892952916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edinburghpools.com/contents/files/ninemasomorenepufuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myslizdrave.com/soubory/18870542398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+know+who+stalk+my+instagramPDF 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_off0000ee5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010670.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10670 17960 bytes
SHA-256: c916084a74f6fa643975b8739afe31b498aa84134aca7eaa165c34b948068893
font_02_sfnt_off00013573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13573 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 4c1afe2c73992e89cf22f60a39d310ca829fe322c63653650b2c582c8e62f34d