Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bf58fa85b522111…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 13:48:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bee90f5f0ee8d26f1cc336aee1cd5ec3 SHA-1: 9d0cf47b56b4ff0e8ce32da10285459ed738f71e SHA-256: 7bf58fa85b522111469ac82be05b172a42e634e04a808691bdc2d72522b7ee84
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 as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, and one heuristic indicates it's a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using a lure like downloading a game.

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 http://ytlcases.com/userfiles/file/39743586730.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/zedijumegofujefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://axlthailand.com/imagexx/files/wizubemubuzotavisivojezix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaabrahaoosta.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92899000591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petswithlove.com/cvsprojects/SSK/Source/2.0.0/images/files/xolokajelutarobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/48798889973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nonstopsushi.com/uploads/files/butowoxofotubili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hacoauto.vn/upload/files/82865345254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/ninexonotulatuvigiruriwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexcochoralsoc.org/demo/lccs/beta/userfiles/files/xakav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmed.vn/upload/files/pitafoxoretuduripesomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggievanostrand.com/uploads/media/file/45858623699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bauarch.bg/files/25443713925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrad.ch/modules/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jusutom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/48256165081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/26248679679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.barrau-philippe-sedeco.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/worifamavutimiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137670ade09a---21640689406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-praha.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50430818993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoklej.pl/app/webroot/media/files/nejesutudobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evrofurnitura.by/elax-furnitura.ru/uploads/files/petiragodemugimaberafogos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarant0g3l-turbo-h1t.com/contents/files/judisibamumaguwebitim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocrangsuthammy.vn/upload/files/98212901225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/fulowebijegaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cauthinh.com/luutru/files/xodojijesumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=download+gta+sa+remastered+androidPDF 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_off0000de81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE81 18564 bytes
SHA-256: 170c975f3f779ee7bbd8e2c5e85d2e5c5fedf8c431b66e04cb0a7f60a67e7d9d
font_01_sfnt_off00010f4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012761.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12761 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 29bfd87b2bb25124729d8283319c9eda67a370034fa84b011c1b9be44f7956b0