Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 948af28e95c90e6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:12:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f64efcd626a2f851aead02a5650a419b SHA-1: 5a16d87cddcae062cc298f37a1bddda32181a53d SHA-256: 948af28e95c90e6d9a71118912cd86dd49ff65aa80a6dabd56e88a8ee1569790
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to form a link farm, a common tactic for distributing malware or conducting phishing campaigns. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+live+tv+channels+live+cricket+streaming PDF link annotation
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/29232613161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuvasarkar.org/userfiles/file/gisidovepanaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413e2541540---11342312602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcaps99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3977723715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soundspace.eu/Upload/file/wajolinukirilajalifobupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bdb29794ce---zexalagesova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damvua.com/damvua/public/images/files/gemowomobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotel-gerard-dalsace.com/upload/document/93826386974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://y3stwk65l-mn9.com/contents/files/50206678651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/rawuwipinazatipeses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylpqzl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pomopolajokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/44089070885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnatowski.pl/attachments/file/8508945907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pierrevillers.fr/mairie_files/file/49073673377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gizaviation.com/uploads/files/496282896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekachaiguitarist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2401087428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evermoral.hk/upload/file/1631087642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lixez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1631792726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otestmanager.org/club/data/userfiles/file/20210912144417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://versobrokers.eu/userfiles/files/xaxifodubax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-vallot.com/upload/files/naxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pasaru.com/upload/files/74266489896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rougezenekar.hu/files/file/3160226457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/89839516106.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_off0000d7b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B0 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 5e9474511c1623d36b9b7876deae7360bcd69b8dfb33a405c615a9d1f661c12e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f006.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF006 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010818.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10818 18432 bytes
SHA-256: bbd08e499048c4a3fd9b94b8ee13261c6d47c027cd7d8b8863a0d85274a10a31