Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78af9f265d8ffd95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 00:51:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 324470b0d15af474a368a139b3a43ee8 SHA-1: 0e5cabe1e2653c3690397953708cd2df0b719f15 SHA-256: 78af9f265d8ffd954a364c4500a156e5bdc4054f39def57e5bd0c7f67aa800c8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic firings point to the document acting as a link farm, directing users to multiple disposable domains, with one URL specifically mentioning 'booster for android optimizer & cache cleaner', suggesting a potential lure for malicious software downloads or phishing. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=booster+for+android+optimizer+%26+cache+cleaner PDF link annotation
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210909183105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d4842ea58---pawofepupumutepopuwakaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elektrostroy.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gobavufokowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/8402077322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--psg-9lac.hu/files/files/55194763673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-a0dcf319a153.breakthroughsport.com/userfiles/files/36010643278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-union05.ru/files/file/dimuziwevelajotudefat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ristovski.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/momedolozef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nurugelexport.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rufuvesuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/files/files/lakawugakum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunjipsc.com/uploads/files/mubupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyoujin.com/UploadFile/file/20210913150839430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eskuvotoszkanaban.hu/editor_up/6376253440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlkingatlan.hu/kepek/other/file/gotoninekupejezukilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondachem.com/d/files/6764929874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanabi-la.com/uploads/files/fefavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabuksusu2.com/contents/files/35384056423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commandhousecreations.com/uploads/files/zuxoraribawuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bbdfd13510---96498915004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mondoacquapiscine.com/userfiles/files/23981553405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/71430239040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handinks.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/5376928204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonspond.com/uploads/files/6755033167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rehahomecare.com/upload/editor/files/kojitowamebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/34220511948.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_off0000dc35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f44c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF44C 10728 bytes
SHA-256: d018012feff19b6570669e4d27f703db72b2071d0e94b79260a29b0b286d606d
font_02_sfnt_off00010cfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CFB 19004 bytes
SHA-256: 940967cd578ad7746bd8b9abc41ab501f74e33fe2bfee5b5019c3944519ad06f