Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f6a693de50d3a90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 06:22:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: afa249684ece5a3965ebb204f28c7532 SHA-1: 0174c00e9d146d98d56a31d8a3b27ffe35300411 SHA-256: 5f6a693de50d3a9053e0fb21b898f77f9abfa675e480e07b373910b7476c16a5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on various domains. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using many distinct hosts with few links per host, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content across a wide, potentially disposable, infrastructure. The presence of external URIs and the link farm behavior suggest an intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://siripanyalamphun.com/user_img/files/derijaxoto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tjjjsh.com/uploads/files/wakifemukedimuneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://votejoedestefano.com/editorData/file/xiligitunovovuzujareb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kientrucqhouse.com/uploads/image/files/39721411024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoa5aj.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51712108771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjcounsel.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/79507784928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/10783047893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlead.net/images/e/file/26584766696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/kuxefuvivovetokizopawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sabancilojistik.com/userfiles/file/95395923138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woori-tour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_6EB86EC353DCFA01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icf-plant.com/files/file/9091168220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/36805092347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchisefarm.franchiseharbor.com/files/files/mizakoxojugexenoweziwipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/20824367810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/53015895337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsddesign.com/filespath/files/20210905010756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halaljones.com/uploads/files/ligezujupowazotejikewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khogiaydantuonghanquoc.com/images/news/file/gumitivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chithanhplastics.com/uploads/userfiles/file/83750215842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ch-bovi.com/upload/files/gijafuwowuratepevujotoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67a2cd2c5610d50279fc4f78e4315c91/41186213085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionradvanice.cz/res/file/48351676312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endobible.com/userfiles/file/rezevivevipenevanebegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=sexy+scanner+appPDF 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_off0000c331.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC331 10304 bytes
SHA-256: 82706b14b45709314d5ad7cf8aa8574c6a71cd8ffa1776bc66f8e943146854f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000da8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA8D 18184 bytes
SHA-256: dd442134df462906359e069a01348acf47ddf5570228c4b326e64ac7aa53e00b
font_02_sfnt_off000109b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1