Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9249179eb7548b29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 00:43:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fc75bc25cf7e355a0134742478940bd5 SHA-1: 24eff3f9e59d1ee0e4fe328609952c8142c55fd4 SHA-256: 9249179eb7548b296af53332faedda189bd67a36830411f7bb8a7e882fba3d4e
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 pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic 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 http://topup-fight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30657008799.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://forumcutuca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2756758666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://museuminiaturesbesalu.com/files/38042183995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxfordjsr.com/userfiles/file/tosagunaxafurenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/lezobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/3048183340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zakuskymoser.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziwiwajudaperis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studiorosaliabusco.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51605523288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucphatloc.com/upload/files/wuwoxavobijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130750828d9a---fobawinijuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/fatizizaraxijeluxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btsoft.vn/uploads/files/34999082973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/10428911130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveworldtogether.com/datas/files/19243061702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbicwad4afgcgd5aph7d5e.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8659082016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenetpost.mn/userfiles/files/20196776605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--atpta-nfb.lv/images/userfiles/files/masubiruxazepegonusepigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phrabat.net/UserFiles/File/80189731797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alocainghien.com/uploads/userfiles/file/liwedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/57852019599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloshoppingnepal.com/userfiles/file/48952498772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/46716243614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gimnazjum-krasiczyn.pl/img/userfiles/file/68224193004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://61kidsclub.com/userfiles/file/19186545898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscow-vernisage.com/files/files/45362162313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+block+your+number+when+calling+on+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_off0000dd8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A2 11172 bytes
SHA-256: ecb32caf8d850a13754f10e3a9c221cd71125ef72f35edc880255bc3c2ca9cfb
font_02_sfnt_off00010f5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F5E 18192 bytes
SHA-256: b7fc0bc46395976937723ce69767f3de7271c0096fb03018270f8111251e7315