Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9996423a98dc9d30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 12:55:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b843b8f55c0acb1c844e56dc305af2b7 SHA-1: e24b59912d5c5ccd7d2d32b25bbe4b652374b90a SHA-256: 9996423a98dc9d3036af092e93a657f8f029c759c80212c42115d286dd0350b4
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous distinct domains. This behavior is consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://airin.lv/images/userfiles/file/73228464998.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/pefovezawidonexiwuruda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrkanuch.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/baratotat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/87298981937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/33524080790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsocialwlefaresummit.com/app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/pedibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/2524243604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/84846847409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchungnguyenlieu.vnpec.xyz/uploads/files/zajolasade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speaklifeiamgreatness.com/files/files/97122208091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/48477751433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatexchangersolution.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903183000482531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/likevuxasolaliwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client/imagesfile/tugadutajuwuxowawajag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imosa.asia/uploads/files/202109060011525445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/20219671272261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imosa.asia/uploads/files/202109052246208823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/554d81c10beffb676b4a444d8e242386/95632953907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bordadoindustrial.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87960587650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/lusugonubukurupetevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cablexconsulting.com/Upload/file/somevuzipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22211979423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnox.vn/upload/files/17920087286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nrgmedia.hu/files/file/1431324329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=freecell+online+unblockedPDF 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_off0000e5e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E9 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 2f085237edc0bb39c3e597ab139293e270f1e22fdd25f6ff2d543c643a2bdb7c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114FF 17724 bytes
SHA-256: eb6028ef076a70e486ebbe25367433abb6c33dbf3ca4a99e618c72cfe49238b1