Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90c929f1495e06e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-26 07:28:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: bce7231c09fc1b444318ed2d301862ec SHA-1: 5484ff103914afc75af8c610ba2bd77b569a17c2 SHA-256: 90c929f1495e06e343f084074d6759d3fbb4080a7d3397e13916b60987879edb
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on a variety of domains, many of which appear to be disposable or low-reputation. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicates a deliberate attempt to create a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content or phishing for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://livestocktool.com/d/files/bipesozaduvogedok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hijoin.hu/editor_up/fenufezijab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thibangoto.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/gatalozaloripen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413d3082630---kimorimikezemepivame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimsanghun.com/upload/userfiles/file/2021914124977077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://underbutter.cz/download/foto/poxenamafajasatores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolinterier.sk/upload/files/foponawipim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kifizokezenibolib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiansecuritisation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80086265932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210924_C662911A8BFC7EFA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f317e8cf7f---22459664275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group-com.gbintl.com/ci/userfiles/files/51149791459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestmanassas.com/uploads/files/tuwowopezepaxunigumisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinedelhi.com/userfiles/files/desegefalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creationart.hu/files/file/lonopigixevir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belean.pl/userfiles/file/99732380698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/fagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/35636466554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gurebojojawozitagogenan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamtrinity.net/trinitya/file/18640538301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/66710573389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppkh.net/userfiles/file/84489693733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/76315559580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/xezebinateget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/fitigalimiroribopaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=annual+percentage+increase+calculatorPDF 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_off0000b119.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB119 15736 bytes
SHA-256: ea6690027f9602fa6b65f48be07bda44a568be537f3eed8258aebb887808ea49
font_01_sfnt_off0000d93a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD93A 10632 bytes
SHA-256: a1cba15bb4773c8bb6c4a49127cde450e4daa4adbfd7294fb9f161d7717dcf33
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1