Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72f14565c2eede7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-10-14 05:14:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0124a051534f772b06039a8b5cf86810 SHA-1: 428c7c173509015727dd58f7940b2b855ac99a40 SHA-256: 72f14565c2eede7d7bb3ccefd39e12c9892d9adc755116addbeb005432ae18b2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious or disposable domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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 http://jca-t.com/fck_image/file/63148492534.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://densayhongngoai.com/uploads/userfiles/file/53150266521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ihanzao.com/userfiles/file/20211011121551_1945947767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/48699773077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divyabodhanam.org/userfiles/file/15004828140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserentkalkung.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duwujon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malabarmail.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73316354255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/43637565858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912040304848975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theclelandgroup.com/img/upload/file/pigos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danies.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vagejizanumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spitalmoldovanoua.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19146136218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syekp.gr/sites/default/files/file/37438776465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee7ba2968c3519d2dbc51b103fb8c8cc/nuxotupigaxinafikasokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://take114.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_7F798AE4AA1DF912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czyxchem.com/upload/files/67904138053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caogenzhiben.com/filespath/files/20210904224741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/jukigufunixomipowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queenart.kr/userData/board/file/kububoror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batdongsandothanh.vn/luutru/files/rapakazikinixez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/womuzopenovuxizusamige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/89731582498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/54490473521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatstone.com/upload/files/545967453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmrh.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/1017401392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/HTGXzuRVGb4/uplcv?utm_term=medical+term+lordosisPDF 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_off0000be45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE45 17588 bytes
SHA-256: e7506bdb599cd056d298454467e05d05957802a7faf6d0fff4c1a9312428d02b
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010332.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10332 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 766125fdcfc55e92a696f98c1c59a686adb646cbe4e484a09fe78564b8aec9ba