Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 762191cd002256f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 03:54:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a75d1310b4aa4728bb8436469a55d351 SHA-1: 001c6cfb183333b80a1490de9813eb8b55e692a4 SHA-256: 762191cd002256f0a9ba5e2612adbe64305afee808404259f65c6b0ab3863298
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and utilize UTM parameters, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior, indicating the document's purpose is to redirect users to external, potentially malicious, sites.

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mehta+gupta+electrical+book+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://phongkhamthienhoa.vn/images/files/34120231990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53278865511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f1-rennsimulatoren.de/userfiles/file/zudigarevolorasituxadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modulobase.com/userfiles/file/56602210936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemdanangpho.com/uploads/2021-09-12/images/files/2062946903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-label.com/upload/files/14344561886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ammk.sk/userfiles/file/pajegifuverul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zemowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danchrisjewelry.com/userfiles/file/pivatipeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rzn-house.ru/upload/file/99707453310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fdd3b14345---zopejutofika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewald.ru/content/Files/32469766013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralgiving.com/media/userfiles/file/18087993124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/gexavojevufutadunariz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karolinanowak.com/userfiles/file/tunuwugutedavidokeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ijrnf350mq11tktgpvajpn2jah/20467756176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bud-med.eu/userfiles/file/7117338587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoldjogsi.hu/uploads/files/68524027751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/12020191392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meubelenindex.nl/images/uploads/bedolawoxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rejs2013.cycling-recycling.eu/imgturysta/files/32868363737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnobor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8505795426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoclassicalmansions.com/uplds/file/gifupenobanub.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_off0000b777.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB777 15972 bytes
SHA-256: 5fe6a1afceb70d1eb2b55a0fab9bfe73c600054aa3908f12ac92ed2c5d0fa9ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0CD 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 3896f1d56e881a9fc69c4fdc9e5d46090916e7d02743385798f93a43edf53714
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA6A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1