Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7de9053dd442a00f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 15:12:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b129ba031ddb931513ab9faf9da76e03 SHA-1: 4dc9c9b7b44ba894f4072717f6e1b93f5dbf61f7 SHA-256: 7de9053dd442a00ffc55924bfef536093e1a44aebdf1d615535673621b29c2b8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to a link farm, indicating a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://xn----otbb6ahq3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ralijixosiwijogifufezudax.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/rekafena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baove24h.org/upload/files/vivetikofibigokozuduvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niengrangchuyensau.com/upload/contentFile/file/90834588069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/lunidunekuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161327e3366c50---kuwaxavuzugomelutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58ulkqmbtqh0vvm4e1titiml59/49083422951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockycheng.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82051666710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/zubirunixivekojalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52636951617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoavily.com/uploads/files/nilovajawufovaneta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tefen67.com/userfiles/files/wupasakofolise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddhaart.in/userfiles/file/jixekelanuzelisaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.pl/userfiles/file/lulawidoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/19527855945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangjeom.com/userfiles/file///tivetiripesuvorodorabawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomacanthe-art.fr/imagebeforeafter/files/baluvaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestsearch.in/admin/uploads/file/61726576900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodlandhills.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/67047294820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-energy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24978732270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerproductionline.com/d/files/dojofevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/surozarug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magazinul-de-instalatii-sanitare.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/70427276361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmpallet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vusafaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=grey%27s+anatomy+season+16+123PDF 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_off0000c03d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC03D 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 32d7e7b78b1b6f71272e209f3efd9d0d4fd1ae9ad738ca17ef604759da3b44ec
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC98 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000104af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104AF 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 433363c7214167311854a7cd7bf36910817772f0dc3eb0a2065077a55f5b0ee8