Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b21d246ef5ff92a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 18:46:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1a5d2efb6ba314f8a223be63dbb2ef99 SHA-1: adb8bafe8259a787ce6e63bf7ad7c412d63019f1 SHA-256: 7b21d246ef5ff92ab394e5ebaa5c3ad7b5d66b7222531a1e6ab4374b3f73e72c
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of hosting numerous links on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the link farm heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aha+app+premium+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://daimarconstrucciones.com/images/admin/file/fuxewuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k2plusinterior.com/userfiles/43225470610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreanhotpot.com/uploads/files/bepakusawexefixubokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snbedu.com/uploadfile/file///2021090500085160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naosgym.com/userfiles/files/79109432017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76c9c9ab2f358161ce87cb446ac5dee9/domukofevefuvinitovogif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sromedical.com/file_media/file_image/file/70250237469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/98643805840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77136429952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obkladacstvikolar.com/content/zusujivixusiwafepifemilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b48724772---96416480522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pratham.one/file/nusekeduwuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/38048348564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lipom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zl369.net/userfiles/file/59799224591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consol.hu/images/uploadedimages/file/velirizesuzem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldgreiner.de/userfiles/file/17183449105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kooijobs.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99319133084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vkgnassociates.com/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/81131044907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albizy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fumexufonagop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angerdress.store/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74380043502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettrungson.com/media/Files/36071079017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangquangauto.com/files/gumumozeralowatuxifevom.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_off0000d48c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD48C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eca3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA3 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 28489a87ad7ad7b4fe01370bdb1f94f49fb2d65b72d562f9c0b52b1e8fdd80de
font_02_sfnt_off0001042f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1042F 18240 bytes
SHA-256: eb6d35662ac1bc8de88b81cc21452e2a6e0a8742be641ed4f59e2d2a6861a0fd