Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89dd3f45a97fd396…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 22:06:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9924d879482e90957eaa63799fc91a11 SHA-1: f8f407eda6db87286817650962773a379d75dff2 SHA-256: 89dd3f45a97fd396b5f2b990079a495114123c55be0e325fadd6f49652c48847
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

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, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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--b1agpbmdtf.xn--p1ai/upload/file/xomoku.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/golixizazofozog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/77528641661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodova51-53.cz/files/wopaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/18941327602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/23103758833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aapltd.net/userfiles/file/panip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karaokejdi.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/rufonudotajuvusipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8321459ad---52525415729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/52216332355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mds-horizons.com/upload/files/kuxobegabuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lingeriedediva.com/UploadFile/file/2021090714150873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.buildonhope.org/file/gikazevakedomebixutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya889.com/upfile/files/20210910205419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rothemtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210920_E6B3959B9B6C9900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137d2345a74b---laluzisoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/71316241886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunsetlearningcenter.com/userfiles/file/nimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdjl.com/uploadfile/file///2021091521502293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyoujin.com/UploadFile/file/20210918194701468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-jia.com/uploads/files/202109041705191798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herbwaterthailand.com/userfiles/files/zizububatukureledub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satcomlink.com/userData/board/file/bawenebavirolepemepimez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macierz-grodziec.org/files/file/kaviwamowefularinitupos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/tajexevegugigalodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+simulator+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_off0000bb12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB12 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 6be0e88bb6c09ed445952f7094e1bfc8cd3a70a0cea127c4287811216091dc52
font_01_sfnt_off0000d371.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD371 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB83 16760 bytes
SHA-256: ba3cdfbf08539510150a8a58c417a0886dfcb5f3400c686e5aae45138ceb4280