Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97c5a73b1e52a812…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-10-16 21:37:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: cf9bc2b93ab6f0c65c0fdb1ac5d51cd5 SHA-1: 7f4d0f779e12f308f0c2ab06ce1f9f567f76be9d SHA-256: 97c5a73b1e52a812d0c2fbd12422b979cfae2c828f8b29ae90d3cd05d7e67753
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF 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, which is a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and its classification suggest it likely exploits a vulnerability or uses embedded JavaScript to redirect the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://avtrak.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43354895640.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://homeshopeez.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/diwasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegaletrotta.eu/userfiles/files/17042621901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alconsprom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mosaxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/34985189310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/35359121665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costabravas.com/uploads/localidades/files/fegexazufivufuxosoxejiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naosgym.com/userfiles/files/lewudovamavuselelawoteto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finliz.lt/i/File/duwewaxujadivawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieulongcopro.com/luutru/files/97598656452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sushmitamukherjee.com/fckimages/file/sepuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingtsunkungfu.ro/imagini_ws/volurobaloxutotebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/39181578579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150005.linebot.net/upfile/files/20211002184242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148b7bf2f81c---vizuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/51903067646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetworkingpro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50196713716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhygiene.hu/editor_up/52487112777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianmailbox.com/assets/images/userfiles/files/76812264114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polenhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/lizasufixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenfountains.com/uplds/file/wogajeninopeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reylab.com/userfiles/file/mafebifejopuxedifomelusug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/sideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saito-ken.jp/userdata/file/46268740530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/UsNeCLCzgYg/uplcv?utm_term=bronsted+lowry+acid+and+base+definitionPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e081.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE081 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF893 19184 bytes
SHA-256: 4ced2a1864e46d8286d2a617731cb4ac70fb483d6ca72a95da45d4a2c1d50863
font_02_sfnt_off000129ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129EF 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 06ac8c181fba24cb47bbd17d6e83f1e0c5e13f7f6c48ef2fde872ad88b0dcd19