Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72b663e069c649ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-30 11:26:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: a5c3f491f48a2ee3467e08461eb72ea1 SHA-1: ccfc2051a1925e12addab222e10303c712eb2e3d SHA-256: 72b663e069c649ac193b520aca233332f8afb73c5a4f651167b1f0287db5512f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. The embedded URLs point to numerous other PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a distribution or phishing campaign. The sample's structure and the presence of multiple external links strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://mimpishiodua.com/contents/files/31887120656.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://areaengineeringsrl.eu/userfiles/files/19760059075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toscanafantastica.com/userfiles/file/47767951291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13d17071c23bf6c83c9e1ddab4b12415/tigirozoturumika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inica.org/files/file///7784851612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionemusicaviva.it/uploads/file/80004854931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kubablimel.pl/Image/files/31419113593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eecpowerindia.com/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tixozigenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genia-groupe.fr/images/files/58415685526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skopjemuzikon.pmgrecordings.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51359069038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restavratorstvo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26060912896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/xizaruwole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/27153223088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/lusipopipatuburito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oris-am.com/editor_up/mavorujekuvawojojivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewald.ru/content/Files/nekumubipoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/dipimavoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a899.net/userfiles/file/72410223543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocgrafikavukatwebsitesi.demowebsiteleri.com/upload/files/galiwidaviwudunofevepeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/jetusugenowesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baobianhkhang.com/upload/files/sudiwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1908685603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/89502492222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bimbrlata.cz/UserFiles/File/tefokozikubofuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f083d1e26a3e42d315622ebaecd37a0/pitilotopoguzonipapiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estudiowebcolombia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoboputozolerir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=jquery+bangla+pdf+book+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000b5a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5A7 10984 bytes
SHA-256: f89e2812eb48e1ce6550672044677eb32089aae73d7e81cb4f11a06799314146
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE99 17152 bytes
SHA-256: 03f6c7b80a15c950346056a378fce90a5e179c4a5172087beea75173a4b71fcd
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1