Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72bc332f81aca7a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 08:51:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1a586a602698a2d28e9ca93933815345 SHA-1: 04157fbde77cdc2211340f3fdd1ca35d840d03b2 SHA-256: 72bc332f81aca7a78930cc836f9e64660b55017033f729d8cf29d05cf827a6f8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with one heuristic identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. This suggests the PDF's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious websites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://spcinternational.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20853073183.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grafosaleservice.cz/images/fck_editor/file/3419605297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41f34485c435318c67ffc63a84de299c/popojemasumokixapupawoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nichecnk.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/8533885256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kojogevoritoxuxovapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alubiasdetolosa.com/files/galeria/files/30006396253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/wovukagigixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englandmatchshirts.com/assets/file/27552831438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kammatrans.com/userfiles/files/55482874624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/24231745108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxxbs.com/uploadfiles/file/a/nibaduxisugowidanuwezuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntep2008.com/UserFiles/File/mivudomonevidonegufujebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miyadenthai.com/image/upload/File/59903912892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carbontuning.ru/file/tobusowasikorijodawun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/rigonosirabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-b-i-s.net/layout/bilder/file/jefiferisime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projektovanje.info/userfiles/file/10880265003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbjnews.com/data/cheditor/0603/files/dosujefopubijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nurugelexport.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80809882342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megatekspb.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/46884855036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarkar.ie/userfiles/file/jedij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903101819458630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jts-electrical.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kerefumidodikejomoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161402176e9570---9868650304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+collage+in+snapseedPDF 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_off0000d7a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A0 17844 bytes
SHA-256: acd3ac9d79b29354144a8b527a45184969b01d1b534bb9babd209df6f9d9f0ca
font_01_sfnt_off000105c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C1 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 40b9445358646f1b16716e87f0214cb1814d04aaba92167cb943f33c90cdcfca
font_02_sfnt_off00011edf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1