Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96996495d8681f52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-22 12:46:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 75526d8547fd5982fa79f75cec8c5cd0 SHA-1: ccd0d55647c0897a0d93bed4d7843f8a1c4185a0 SHA-256: 96996495d8681f52b213d39075057058bd7db292f01b0b94d8690cb3b34e2d65
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristic PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM indicates the PDF is a link farm on disposable hosting, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sat+practice+test+2+2015+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/tuzemakamanigexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicespace.org/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95960862923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-restaurant-plainfaing.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bepozak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiahpa.com/flash/files/gixexatejofasanen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalmediaminds.com/uploads/files/74273284236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/varepafiwesaruzel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wufofur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ahcjevtqq.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jesopemibavukiwekop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents/files/37892192328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shyjjc.com/v15/Upload/file/2021991146131798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leasingtowers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gavipidojosamogibobavowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durgabas.coop.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19590209665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agroanaliz.by/upload/editor/files/wojepebawujafegonuten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/file/54923544644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12739400681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/92419711068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abcelectricalonlineshop.brilliantwebtech.com/userfiles/files/jazotarujenaxojitanex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleanenergy.mn/uploads/files/29580004459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613182877517d---91956566438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahmission.org/dataroom/file/fugipipake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://es21sys.com/userfiles/file/wazufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenstatues.com/uplds/file/gaxizekijoragor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yepuco.com/uploads/files/sexexenixelirunotoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/757rust7o844l3lhkvlq6vjo8f/80771397647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biographiewerkstatt-singer.de/userfiles/file/88060357726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soeurs-scjboran.fr/soeurs/upload/files/bitepomedawigefupalinokux.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_off0000d887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD887 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f099.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF099 16804 bytes
SHA-256: 5d81fd4083d1c0f49342aeb931425063f6f454e30c32616c2d51c29a079f2162
font_02_sfnt_off00011c3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C3C 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 9784956c66e685b9652cb96d77d92a2bea462215e9ffd8a5fe2dd8d09dad8ee0