Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72777c5e26cf8766…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 21:12:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 10222035c41f90b4bf9d69e5bdde3998 SHA-1: cb8fc98e47f948926e6a8c89af4072533fc7279a SHA-256: 72777c5e26cf876699bb2c14aa363e749080df84f250d6e638dd7c6882147652
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic further supports this by identifying a pattern of linking to disposable hosting, likely to obscure the true malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 http://hstechno.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/kiwizevagufamut.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/wuretowifivewubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionnakrizankach.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72445105215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyvale.com/wysiwygfiles/file/fudiwotomapuwerexekuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korvioinfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bexotatusewiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibshospitals.com/userfiles/file/13190583714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmresearch.org/userfiles/files/tadav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f157a47e03---59418328556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/83986301137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pune-india.info/userfiles/file/45722748208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acconpriti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41521884081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614011708528e---70526651512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianxi.cn/filespath/files/20210910173038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sergeisurzhin.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/litalofukupafukeparamiwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridagreatescape.com/media/file/misosubavugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenmallbiotech.com/upload/files/14373465151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamma-electronics-eg.com/userfiles/files/43930604464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--66-6kc8bfmkmjd.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/labasuzotej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nezrenpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/63170194662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khyatiinfotech.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zigome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boki.hu/editor_up/gatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteplacementagency.com/uploads/files/tesosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birizgardenhotel.com/userfiles/file/38613600085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nonbodepsg.com/uploads/files/repat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuvefigarepikiputulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinorarechem.com/upload/files/limokerijegovajiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mywayrtk.com/userfiles/file/23982495990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=vidma+screen+recorder+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000e0c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C0 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 0c5e0a1058ff7c59638fd55d1352b722286bac3a2283bf4387017d7621a13289
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110FC 21292 bytes
SHA-256: 41622f948b7c102f5afbbefc7260f7e87f9ece50f13726a25ea6c6fd5c685399