Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d5db0bad9d77236…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:24:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 37bff7d6acc3527b9e72c30d6e78ac13 SHA-1: 0017e7fd6ba1931bb651e07b18fb477872b371a7 SHA-256: 5d5db0bad9d77236b7502dda8ef7490f6886f5dc7c5f890f11089de030b92192
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which host other PDF files, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this is a phishing or malware distribution lure. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://justsayhi365.com/uploads/file/13638227176.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alrehabourhome.com/userfiles/files/walimukimoruvamesejex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/51664002864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charmingcurls.se/upload/file/xewajutuzuzadupenuzasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piazzademarini3ge.com/userfiles/files/70293213909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zangerlelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rapasewexo.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://msmzizkov.cz/data/dokumenty/42793580707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocigliano.com/userfiles/files/78747710490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stapper.de/sites/default/files/userfilesfile/51280396543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/15661144168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/99792575281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushistoryus.com/uploads/files/11230418041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff2ebbb082b52fae4b5cf08ab5e1f032/33790952875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65080719669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abhinavabhishad.org/userfiles/file/41692267204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powerliteaac.com/userfiles/file/renagerape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.peaceofworld.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/34377259020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agronlogistics.com/userfiles/files/zujawin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhyuk.com/imhyukeditor/userfile/file/65230509535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jljemc.com/upload/files/97148360450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shindah.com/images/ckeditor_img/files/nejizinozijalufitevawok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/306574ebf301e986168dc5b2c91f6315/muzufumewuvoduwovitiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12162764738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=4+elements+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_off0000f9ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9ED 19348 bytes
SHA-256: 1befbfcd91f50f39336afc245f737c988d19f41542d829da80b8d930ade81a07
font_01_sfnt_off00012c36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001444d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1444D 10176 bytes
SHA-256: c74c652fb0571c1293115b7f4a4c5acf4ce7bd4bbc431438958843adb9701deb