Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c1b674ebea4eef5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:23:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 675412ba73fe45131a47c311cbfbde5f SHA-1: 4e9c46517bd44834703a422a00497f90aba26079 SHA-256: 5c1b674ebea4eef5ca170287fa610b2d9bf0855ff0c89c9e6d35e4f19a578308
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to suspicious domains, and one heuristic identifies it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and the link farm characteristic suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/resululafovaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/87915988839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613de11e23d70---xavovetap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://choinka4x4.org/cms/files/file/masatunilexaxiwokewipafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sten.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210909043621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savages.lu/imagesRTE/files/99340577952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/88522058929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmychadla.eu/UserFiles/File/23772466596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/77022552912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/1631132082121785863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolky.info/foto/images/file/zisopusixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/gagujibekosivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orangcar.com/app/webroot/upload/files/24992487800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/foturusepisoridawiboxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/vijodinekazukejoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easternresources.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46748534191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everestlodgelukla.com/userfiles/file/75208825335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/biwagusoziwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles/files/16115817068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slhospital.com/upload/fckeditor/file/26685695356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/xuvotodagewivukafinupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satbietthu.com/luutru/files/libut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bsa.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noporoguwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zisalififizulimazupur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80120000862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=android+dialogfragment+set+transparent+backgroundPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB91 11276 bytes
SHA-256: 7c958c01413b567f21c54cf3f8d3c6961c711e3ce21bdec6a7b03270845d7d95
font_01_sfnt_off0000f59e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59E 21424 bytes
SHA-256: 5c83fda34720cb06c14c2c6c23a227308d202d81adbd6fc9236a4532f980e0a9
font_02_sfnt_off00012e08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E08 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 34937f13dc99c04250e946a77e6e1667f32c286973ffe9efe1be4b5a84baf4f2
font_03_sfnt_off00014850.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14850 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1