Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69df7ea77d67806f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-10-11 03:43:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 8f7a0a45860a9f5fc8fe273487e22a68 SHA-1: 3c71f0eb44d2a27688d5be8ffb15c1a4f7b6dc41 SHA-256: 69df7ea77d67806fe72a94b49544cfa825b4cd6e753fc00db5bb9642352478ac
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the true malicious destination. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using many distinct hosts with few links per host, a common tactic for evading detection and distributing malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the detection signatures suggest it likely serves as a dropper or redirects to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2004+ford+f150+owners+manual+fuse+diagram PDF link annotation
    • http://grandwatergatehotel.com/upfile_hotel/files/nezifopizemerurevoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-xian-coat.com/uploads/files/202109050205351462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavihara.net/userfiles/file/nonuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210919073549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/14448050126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izyskately.ru/foto/ck/files/pesolafokizuturobifomawoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmvt.cz/sites/default/files/34494807177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silver1979.com/upload/file/5147719566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615ba85c05a8b---siwexowevigixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiercontractinginc.com/files/file/rubamopetuzedivuxufuxura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616261ad9b69c---pigakorobijenaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldstat.ww.tj/img/file/41033687600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cailux.lu/userfiles/files/14114483577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noursportevents.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/15218604739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.com/userfiles/files/96775006569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makassitools.com/userfiles/file///tisulabipapuwamam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosteleriayvending.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mupefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vemerer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://currycornersugarland.com/admin/images/file/72870870646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/sesalesesumarotusanugarok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everintelconsulting.com/upload/file/202109211127056374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goang-hann.com/uploads/files/202110030450332775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garraldaarquitectura.com/garralda_userfiles/files/wanegakupevuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66763890119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://licorne-hotel-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/20871903049.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_off0000c293.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC293 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000daa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA5 17692 bytes
SHA-256: a9d409e46af9f57193950a1f34c1ba73c9306516b1f6f1551977f38fcdc8e001
font_02_sfnt_off00010849.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10849 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 5fea49a4f20e019bab68a6237fcb00e487d1259054abee28634fb64baa0723da