Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 628f39b5b0cd0e13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 00:07:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e04d32a94afb6706fc8ba2da534fa2d3 SHA-1: fbcca80a93c199449d1c75407d7b0c7b91305c83 SHA-256: 628f39b5b0cd0e13b600aa42deb5f0b1de19d55eee7873a0aa5f1e3715de77e1
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware hosting sites, aligning with spearphishing attachment tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=update+poco+f1 PDF link annotation
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/6611160133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lean-ds.com/upload/editor/file/35977859606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingphrases.net/userfiles/files/sofibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161467b6cbf277---57083399644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lzokxjcrti5um.com/upload/fckeditor/file/wawesites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://univerosg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88181901634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmresearch.org/userfiles/files/xinizowugaravikajosoweri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indobaliart.com/sitefiles/file/lukakewijapejonab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/jazubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hockeydh.com/files/ups/files/73674239989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/8581399643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeloosschinkels.be/userfiles/file/waxaxabamanibufogiropo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluminiosarla.com/userfiles_arla/files/pomagetubufira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-la.com/uploads/files/wigavulumedoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpt-mh.com/uploads/news/files/kiteboxulojupaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bn-biz.com/userData/board/file/17285492780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--3e0b556bhrbowi6undva.com/ckupload/files/83296680457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.terraton.com.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wopukoderasudera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtrafitcoaching.com/www/images/files/rogupatok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16140cf1726e09---63756880253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartinatv.org/uploads/files/15681699551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/womigixenugumazuwitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irrisyst.eu/files/file/wuwesosetojilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jigomegurogesavomevameran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e5a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A4 18224 bytes
SHA-256: ab8b0d8cf52350aa844c7c726fb5e202fb2b4b80b8d2485bdfacb2e75e33d8a1
font_01_sfnt_off00011485.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11485 10164 bytes
SHA-256: 0b3e4af30212af83de10aaeec1faa1d4e207f06f6cf6ee9689433c7da9a4df4e
font_02_sfnt_off00012b71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1