Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93a0fb3bc376988e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 05:56:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8e63b5f0e029b608c6fe69dfcc7b7799 SHA-1: b1e3d24c47d0ffb6b284e50bc13c51eb4bee11b9 SHA-256: 93a0fb3bc376988e59baba50bbe9e09c8a6809e90771fc440c77dd721c3d4129
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to PDF files on disposable hosting, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, reinforcing the phishing or scam lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tutor+in+a+book%27s+geometry+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://spcinternational.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/refodovideba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pegazemulukazedomuberukin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apple888.vn/luutru/files/19393391231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318dd7b39c5---51546831899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7mark3t2-7aya.com/contents/files/8412175092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolorubursztynu.kolorubursztynu.pl/web/uploads/files/87923069671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vongtaytramhuong.vn/upload/files/26280864849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-tes.ru/files/file/5615665113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armour-technoz-ca.otzol.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39846337419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktasmatbaacilik.com/resimlerfiles/febisatez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiemhoahaibara.com/data/dulieu/files/navabofexujuzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cserepakciok.hu/xdata/file/gekatiman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dralituncer.net/userfiles/file/rurebokawadogijebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulleungroadtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_B711362D780063E9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angerdress.store/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54759145711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/53212354560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/35522721691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f2h63c2.ip4secure.net/upload/files/zakabuzefagowitepavemibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/27055808751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f23215e61---lojameru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gildiamasterov.ru/userfiles/file/vesefulituxizarek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhrc.in/userfiles/file/gezemowoxakowamebubopeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anabakorea.jp/userfiles/file/nepivetazorivudofijiwomij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/43494941100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lensmam.com/userfiles/file/dobolarigoziruvika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://888chji.com/userfiles/files/ledejabixinasurenabaxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dd47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f55e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF55E 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 3acf793a03a2874e893ba6056d8f13b2ea233f3a9df9e1b788a6a4ed0a6c896b
font_02_sfnt_off00010f62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F62 18064 bytes
SHA-256: 6903dd96fdd42c8338f614dda038a9ed6753e243323038c01881c51f93a38979