Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94a40cc8707bc583…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 13:37:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6c252607aa1e51e800c0b582c0e73f55 SHA-1: c4defd358ac0ae166b2ac62f3665626e7b88a806 SHA-256: 94a40cc8707bc58386c8a3e15328816311969d9c45bd5602e94b24338d3fe78c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file 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 hosted on disposable domains and configured as a link farm, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a malicious PDF designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=linking+verbs+and+action+verbs+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • https://kattliv.com/kattliv/admin/userfiles/file/88438536793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luiginoiobbi.com/userfiles/file/45530231597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/75341047871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bankerz.in/qpic/files/binegofaret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelexpert.ro/uploads/files/92980384071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31443617353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamphuhiep.com/Images_upload/files/56841680386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/80805266498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enricobarraco.com/files/24650924775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inimtrento.it/userfiles/files/63008588597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncetrabzon.com/resimler/files/nenitotaziduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/21896133411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocoachfox.com/userfiles/file/56038572701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ce31b6e82---wiwakunamogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agierresrl.it/userfiles/files/botaketizavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siweduboselofibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pasted-radio.de/web/files/95093707756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338b00db869---8174904898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/32787311190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gobelsprofil.com/upload/files/verapijuwesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/53953799894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tajirapuxiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heks-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/39474219768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/paboredo.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_off0000d6dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6DD 18044 bytes
SHA-256: fd0f2300c67780b67f29efca153b4acc39be12322e909bee7142b6adbdd62ab9
font_01_sfnt_off000105a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A7 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 483340f20e8181517970712ae69e1b4bd7753aa0936a2f6c3164bbe1037c61f9
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1