Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68bd7a3856c3aa92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 21:01:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d9aa37b3b666363b797fa3bcaee46efa SHA-1: 39d828cade07b4f719eeb470fb519c2bc8bf2537 SHA-256: 68bd7a3856c3aa9230fdcd48fc5b79957e5fc325e34c57f7b8a1ed3484c5f91d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on potentially disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://shophouse.info/images/files/vadekedolapikixiliputibu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sure2trips.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/8451664595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malerbetrieb-malanders.de/Webseite/pics/fotos/1/file/86709442767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenmobile.in/jaipriyart/uploads/files/15943738731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscraphandlers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gamadulokupan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onecre.com/images/content/files/55230136790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedical-yub.com/uploads/file/sovubitegurebobakasozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scmsgroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47505306606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technimexvn.com/images/ckeditor/files/sedepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giadinhlaurenso.org/upload/files/86478355924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4ufbsnm9pilqum98tlk4cd7r6/pigijodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borneneskontor-landsforening.dk/userfiles/file/54686233762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dupojenewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexus-study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/87286783419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chablis-gautherin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31130564079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bedrucken24.de/userfiles/file/26823597347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aerotechgroup.ru/img/outer/files/29967018452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shipgo17.com/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16084290200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/mewomizopusolipisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bagstyle.uz/images/file/72540894698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xehowo24h.com/images/ckeditor/files/wososikejadal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundlight.ca/home/foun6192/public_html/files/custom_files/file/46733455278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomayaku.com/userfiles/file/81943246898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangnhatbanonline.com/upload/files/nukefukixek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myxroad.net/upload/userfiles/file///rozifafizububofifiduraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://il-gusto.com/images/file/53089872573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=gd%26t+handbook+pdfPDF 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_off0000d4d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D4 17768 bytes
SHA-256: a6067b52349ce835feb85088eee4dcb0c6dc1b748ece3337a4443e27ce0a2726
font_01_sfnt_off00010299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10299 9252 bytes
SHA-256: 78cdcad42cdd225bb93e0ab49b11953281bf332d9afcbcac27717ef38fa03627
font_02_sfnt_off00011606.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11606 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1