Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5920525df3b118da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 07:49:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0947a08b920492fd71738c9a37d29012 SHA-1: 1f8a4ef7d8b94d888148abf7dc5eacec9042e4dc SHA-256: 5920525df3b118dab15f83f52e350e57a0214e9eba667aa7d723e78e81f742fc
134 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. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document contains numerous links to disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded URLs, even if some are benign, supports the attack pattern of directing users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://isotope3.pm-ural.com/uploads/files/gulosoto.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614118e33c4bb---16975664813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohingltd.com/userfiles/dukexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krr-nfe.com/suratnfe/UserFiles/File/47788568733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7282521178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/75380946909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studyhalltracker.com/files/file/luwogukekefepikotesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailchopper.rockeit.com/userfiles/file/tulojovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szintai.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tegabesugimedeneti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kliknetezde.cz/admin/obrazky/file/gigomuzedisaxaziti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/kevafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southpointinstitutehowrah.com/admin/uploads/file/pasikogezisigekonepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iiiemjobs.com/FCK_Editor_Images/files/28394786187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://el-tall.pl/pics/file/91898734910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hocomesun.com/upload/wejosoxupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gespk.com/userfiles/file/dosupegeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokalizacja-gps.pl/userfiles/file/susudasukofuxudapalet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hindustanadvancedsolution.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/bavatitawego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://needletherapy.eu/upload/file/libijatibisotejonuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/zulomedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a29e199be8f8d687ce964a2f2682374/lexibukulivijunadeluvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80ag1a2a.xn--p1ai/files/file/lagisipodafedun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharedsynergy.com/userfiles/file/56855778526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.de/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/64937635461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=download+temp+mail+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000d4f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F9 19652 bytes
SHA-256: 83874b84fdeda2cb9077ffd178f63657b560f15a6a31e2f262dcf33848cc13dc
font_01_sfnt_off000106ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106EE 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 7d4edb480743140b7db8970bca0bb146cc958a3b3ea586089de41696c195902c
font_02_sfnt_off00011ea6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1