Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98ec300e398b2b0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-22 10:34:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 60910ede3f354d2602fdb833623d1232 SHA-1: 46d07d81b617429c2896ebea18c96a8c03798f24 SHA-256: 98ec300e398b2b0c1a8403192d75105786678a8b6025a673b3500d78ce478a7c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to potentially malicious domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://ombs.ru/uploads/files/lilajibewibaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ermolino.mebel18.com/uploads/files/gubokexoloxusimitufuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/zidif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc18c22df0056763d0d774b5fdcbd38d/48307891622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banerjeetourspecial.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gotetevolajapebewas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifimmo.lu/userfiles/files/20991608677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27431842763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iagclaims.endataclaims.com/ModCoreFilesUploaded/file/81214315186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huarong-bio.com/upload/files/dofezimukakuzun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakesup.org/userfiles/file/bixenazirame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fractinvest.com/uploads/file/79589610165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2581fb19065c8099cc861687c73972c1/tagetinorinuleleda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--q3cceuw0c6ab0d2ii.com/upload_file/files/91626177085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettobotteonpierpaolostudioabacus.it/userfiles/files/8058073599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417fa0c18e6---kazukarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stichtingech.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sudifuzinemugibani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alharithiforcameras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8714586244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnobor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66587961128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umffz21.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/majufamujupibijive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/86512121180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gillsandgeckos.com/userfiles/file/79279289323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=best+android+app+to+make+presentationPDF 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_off0000e069.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE069 17972 bytes
SHA-256: 1f669877827ad9d5d60c4d8a908b334f32668d11ef3100ee3c4c567e03045008
font_01_sfnt_off00010de9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12600 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 8e50af76f21c52d63ee74dc97e4f318197127aea730a27c160b0ad067b582350