Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 993b145d172d4a28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 18:47:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 94e9a61b2cc273e9885e6608da420647 SHA-1: f5565012678ecbd852a05b4e18de83e0ae282661 SHA-256: 993b145d172d4a28325dfd925bedc0dc45fa9fc9d7182c595f7f1d6203b227a1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially malicious PDF files hosted on various domains. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests these URLs are part of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination or distribute malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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://rt-totaalafbouw.nl/userfiles/file/somokejusazepupeweg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trieuduong.com/images/Download/zevuxawozagimudokir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://priscar.com/documents/files/14677392292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmbarrenetxea.soinuenea.eus/files/galeria/files/nasimas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/kudamufurogixopavajakuzeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210901_213509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilsogno-bomboniere.com/userfiles/files/55828972141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theptaynam.vn/upload/files/49270610182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulgankhangai.mn/userfiles/files/98881198352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/44954442524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324dab84d64---rabobasuwezesexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinobajka.pl/Upload/file/68801857155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/lawuvuserixotolifuduvuzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/jigilagefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhshf.de/File/gajumuwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stemcellhairclinic.com/files/files/wosexarok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/pebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpholding.ru/uploads/files/wogokixowidagobetipuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81144350704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/fudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/userfiles/file/80201524936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://open-call.fr/uploaded/files/64632702367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associatedreclaimed.com/userfiles/files/54081024640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvrhousing.com/uploads/rujinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=satyajit+ray+short+stories+pdfPDF 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_off0000d893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD893 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AA 10764 bytes
SHA-256: c9020d8dffeb25bb22d7b6992c6f8b7ad388b26c87070c595350afd9e293e6d5
font_02_sfnt_off00010988.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10988 16452 bytes
SHA-256: f476bfbcb717996bd576c33406ac0bea4725e48de7e834de7c53c6dd88d61d39