Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62526c306c789a57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 20:36:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 4d6978d26f67bf22d6df58ee9326bdce SHA-1: ecb37cbd5872761743838e2662a860b6ef9cd798 SHA-256: 62526c306c789a575a972032257e35bc3cf156be3a468ae495f1eed3e7eb32b7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, reinforcing the malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the detection results point towards a phishing or malicious content delivery scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee45fue5kbqoskk724ppl521nh/58409507042.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tchid.net/userfiles/file/20279622340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunbot.com/upload/files/88504965801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/wuwimoziwefawavewaxabuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocatogiuliani.it/userfiles/files/jofoluwimalesovavijexosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yk-tech.com.tw/ckfinder/uploads/ckfiles/files/pinenifefazuruzukiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradegateindia.com/userfiles/file/3648232426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novitas.ro/files/fomugilogajoxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snapstudios.ca/userfiles/file/sigegomonoxodonaxukazaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-pushkino.ru/upload_picture/file/susemeluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stressmanagement-karriere.de/userfiles/file/radefujimen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/13605273960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serbanindustrialconstruct.ro/uploads/files/kakitazadiwepozorekatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmf8.ir/data/file/69174997980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianmailbox.com/assets/images/userfiles/files/zikumewerexasoxisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poaglasses.com/uploads/files/202109020857013787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/4908568677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefoster.com/pliki/60965183364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/5862190486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.meditech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fugosototareweserudumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396bc3a895c---53906129352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=best+movies+to+watch+englishPDF 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_off0000f62e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF62E 17968 bytes
SHA-256: fc44f461625cfb374730e06bc9dd9e706267b2e3776af3fdc461f60b4de74799
font_01_sfnt_off0001245c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1245C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C73 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 5ae1ef5820466bad29f6946949a798518461df61aa183257dbdf6853806ecc75