Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96c6b6442d68bb69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-10-02 09:18:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: a9244e00a62b117d881bd806afadf2fc SHA-1: eac79f380fbc5d0ddacf59718de29e6e1a927dd9 SHA-256: 96c6b6442d68bb69f3f79a1398980d421eeea1902de8a688089dd00c407f39d0
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous disposable domains, with one URL containing a search term suggesting a lure for health-related queries. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not explicitly detailed in the provided evidence, is a common technique for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities and redirecting users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pain+in+left+side+of+front+neck+artery PDF link annotation
    • http://uniradioweb.info/userfiles/files/74456130169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/nazolusomiredexolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orem.mn/uploads/files/bebefuzivotokemamigogofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/pizeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gestionarival.com/userfiles/file/sutozijuzavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/tedoridapiboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorrstrechy.cz/UserFiles/File/jepelumiganujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39297917058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baracenter.be/userfiles/file/gefimuzefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-17/20210917122641478131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalfinepashmina.com/userfiles/file/71446495873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raguvosbaldai.manovonia.lt/images/files/sefekipol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siripanyalamphun.com/user_img/files/2819451633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjengo.org/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/32546199204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vcvscr.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/1397021166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanfrancescovet.com/userfiles/files/89662148542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/norowekav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/sixixogifakotafufugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/4465669951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fe7d615eda73a76d010b76e5183a6a6/dujimiwulotezowujikizob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalroomplus.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/gesizelaj.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_off0000aefb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c712.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC712 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 2849c3d49a69df5ef409c56d72a56dd6fd1d924356d5767982be917533bf6801
font_02_sfnt_off0000dfaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFAF 17600 bytes
SHA-256: b2839d138fabf46c57f34d5bdfdf557750e32a5509242868e21c6b94e5d481b5