Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 957745ad57a8549f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-28 09:42:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 27e44310efb07d37f692836d2a03f3e2 SHA-1: 40ca4006af4ecd351351c97414489947eff6bb93 SHA-256: 957745ad57a8549fc9b181722eb8dedf6aa17e9ddf0558cc11e8b2c81d423378
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the true destination through multiple redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+see+my+computer+screen+on+my+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://terminsk.by/pics/files/pufudufavigib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/sojef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lhdgv.ca/lpch2010/userfiles/file/4868974308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/91316157665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinyezi.cn/upload/1827406259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/tijuwuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161449d7a777ef---majufudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjglaw.com/uploadfile/file/2021091417242573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigonradio.com/userfiles/file/zixadaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/8699369539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsy.cz/images/file/files/vifijimifozavikubukijogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/60117525119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolegium.inaheart.org/upload/files/41580027797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae1aae9fe19cdd279c9f02762970d152/66153359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zafawadoroxaraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nceed.kr/pds/userfiles/files/lazixusuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muntepa.com/userfiles/files/ganinixifenevipowivawivub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redondoclassicburger.com/uploads/files/876154167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billagelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/67333279230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbriz.ru/userfiles/file/pakobifesidirojufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flavio-tonon.it/public/file/620818184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/29095252174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiospazioambiente.it/userfiles/files/51575149871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalfeedindustry.com/upload/files/xomekirejujefavakigu.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_off0000b5ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDC5 10632 bytes
SHA-256: d73cee70781224706a38e72c902e3b41143774019b648044128b109a306f5f24
font_02_sfnt_off0000e5f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5F3 16604 bytes
SHA-256: 6ab20b2596b0ab137261a887ef0116f18210e46cb46604f02d5e896769b88d8f