Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c4d8533555a1f75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-26 02:48:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4c7e4fe99441f9af664c333dd304f1ae SHA-1: eadce5d431df182119dc0d8aff460d0080fad3ef SHA-256: 5c4d8533555a1f750b4cdd54a61d6f2266707250b640a89871fd7db64bf84539
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous distinct domains, many of which are unknown or potentially disposable. The presence of many PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM firings strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210923195208.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://danies.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7662010024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blccy.com/userfiles/files/86692719472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e2206b6ad4---jemapapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dasbluemchen.com/fuvotumoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chandrakantmusicacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xumamavomozuxatage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcimx.com/files/janeduvuxofifore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandravanshi.com/userfiles/file/mokezumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanticabtl.com/cms_2018_quantica/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/46975592403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumsevens.com/images/file/26011412124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abzesolar.com/uploads/files/gadufobomikupagisuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ebd9fbae70---fupaloxopiragora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikra-ekb.ru/files/fckeditor/file/34771234956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drzwiukryte.pl/userfiles/file/23336227426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesht.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zowikobifajimiluba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/tapupawosoxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/96283279493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipssecurityconsultants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57939808779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelreviewreserve.com/basefile/hotelreviewreservecom/files/morosadoligitor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62990349344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apatity.verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41161911786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijntherapie.be/uploads/files/moziwozumazodil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivankrivanek.com/userfiles/file/sisezebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realxenon.ru/uploads/files/25368798007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=bookmark+bar+chrome+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_off0000afb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFB2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7C9 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 40fa52a3f71bf42b8ff8062053cc7133c99ae81d3caa94d3a53464df0fc59150
font_02_sfnt_off0000dfc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC8 16008 bytes
SHA-256: afd008009b5f17a57a0256485eae4f7983d8b77aa8f2f0b4b1e79babeebde0db