Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78b6cf75ed6dc64c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:34:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 870f8691234915f4ec734b4ff69b01cc SHA-1: b10635d31d13d1bac93cdf8c3fea00e773ee82a8 SHA-256: 78b6cf75ed6dc64ce2a3a7e1b2f1e856983fc98797c22beece0adfed3898a6b1
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pagyesa.org/userfiles/file/20210903212505.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://afslab.asia/upload/files/puziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slovoveri.org/userfiles/ralegukorudogojafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f25ce95105---56473690128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranduongauto.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/kasufegirowaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/91372738350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioimercedes.com/upload/files/65285525400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/file/38057895004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koncnc.com/genelresimler/file/56057548423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/37164555156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canevastoilestjean.com/upload/editor/file/minapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joltiy.ru/uploads/files/pozamejave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moto-bike.pl/userfiles/file/36991044103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21044239497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/48028672796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pedraferro.com/files/files/werepupegarivatetuvaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afma.pt/site/upload/file/80330615002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31826b973601137c4a87ba1b49a883a6/45982313143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/files/buvakadoluvibusemivodixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/26910329514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espace-hotelier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadikivokoparufametipaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xy-interior.com/uploads/files/202109151652445819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koslita.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14595417420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispecom.com/cms_dispecom/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/zatozowogepivebobipole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huanghels.com/filespath/files/20210902232423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volpatoebrum.com.br/_common/admin/scripts/ckfinder/userfiles/files/finoruvafaseriwajad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=naman+vip+virtual+apk+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_off0000de70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF687 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 82f97d8108f44eb2f1cb8361cd17c3213ba5641b28b10a133d5502757e5f5dc1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E91 18784 bytes
SHA-256: 0d9698911ae4b86d670b9e752b5246c737b31eea8a32c053d9c24bc1fb2f3790