Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a9682578b2d8b17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 19:36:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ef6d0678a05b3fa0d77367aa0d357b44 SHA-1: 382dc0b20b5cd8a84b2bbc30ae3a2924cfd3a491 SHA-256: 5a9682578b2d8b17cfc3acda95337ad3c28ef6253be05c866a86103d10c556d9
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious phishing content. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm on disposable hosting, likely to lure victims to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+draw+a+moose PDF link annotation
    • http://rqconsultores.com/userfiles/file/doletoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetounificado.com/uploads/files/xuvedenufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614564a920b5c---90618029697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titusauto.hu/kepek/file/kikevuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nlh5keitb1ad9m3f9r62cgotjn/60139074804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalclinicbangalore.com/uploads/62332766442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unibeauty.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32919262734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://driftwoodcc.com/userfiles/files/ronajimunubixadobado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/dikewosasuburire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motodubai.com/uploaded_images/files/nawulexotojozej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recuva.kr/upload/fck_img/1630782932/file/ruxojovakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit.ru/files/file/40658198785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/94767283924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themalc.org/files/file/49375046149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2kat.ru/userfiles/file/58376971762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngonluathan.vn/images/ckeditor/files/6287774767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agavietnam.com/img/files/safewinafifila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_7867D9CEEF9C5F94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68550665573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomelieagency.com/userfiles/files/79965279661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tainandentist.com/uploads/files/202109032326475822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbjvweekof5d.xn--p1ai/files/files/sulibojukiwejadejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.huaikrachaohospital.go.th/assets/global/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52900966340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promenade-perpignan.com/userfiles/file/tewimosasepidozenowejobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000da33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA33 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 0707cb4a5a3c742dc8132567882e7df87bd8e076ac872d3d21ecc39c8017c20b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f14a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF14A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001095c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1095C 16576 bytes
SHA-256: 5fda3e98da804f2f1e2c72463767bfbab599f41137b0368ef473a7b646ec5b14