Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b5d514844afd117…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 15:25:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 60652070992b9c4aed75755aa65ad69f SHA-1: 293defdb10db40e84cdd6a034594f6fba4a74a86 SHA-256: 7b5d514844afd1171472620dd2a25a2a8ad10d65265f6a9c20b274ff435d932e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the final destination by using multiple low-reputation domains. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the heuristics and the presence of many URLs strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cartoon+photo+editor+apk+for+pc PDF link annotation
    • http://tecniagua.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/61993900612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/xetinetagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingkady.com/uploadfile/files/95344316069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d9ef53c8f5bb878931038f2c2fd503a/tesupejetesetodijaperuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.temaricerca.com/entry2013/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wilebipipusiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabresources.com/FCKuploads/file/bilibufowusejaxovelugodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qian-ho.com/upfiles/editor/files/dalowobajode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prasongp.com/file_media/file_image/file/zowenugamafaraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebonit.light.bg/includes/libs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gonowijuxosomezuzis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161350ce4b9e37---18383435129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatiyabhashaparishad.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71471743631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psystems.gr/Administrator/uploads/userpics/OutPostImages/files/vonopawoparotip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents/files/fokapuwugejuzokududeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsctda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210909_041958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottomaniantextile.com/userfiles/file/vabedegor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eecpowerindia.com/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42175047557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hankilfood.com/userfiles/file/20210910110534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb273410c7---falekibajuzuriwinageket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/94041456057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasand.com/userfiles/xiwogabixijotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbarestate.com/survey/userfiles/files/duzokiputetopixanonedoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriologos.it/userfiles/files/94886917856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/070007075787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/midafekuzoweporokir.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_off0000d81e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD81E 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 4e6c4a194192d2f680a9c69a202c714866cf7a32aad0902df9fc03a293acfc65
font_01_sfnt_off0000f05b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF05B 18172 bytes
SHA-256: bb8567deabc0ffc0179a1f74737c7a15fd10cc7b0f2a500bf9372eb7e6f62a18
font_02_sfnt_off00012041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12041 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1