Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a2e5589770b1324…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-11 05:55:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cb52d8ed561aaf11706ce1034ae13198 SHA-1: 191e4842eedbed46c36e381286c39726a3f45bed SHA-256: 9a2e5589770b132467b6df080cb61cffc413bdd4576a136be24a70ffec9e5270
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this phishing intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b9ed3d54bf98o99un2jbqnbk5/goramurefigusokepo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://protok.pro/upload/files/bovafakitunuvafazaxade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skiclubraonbaccarat.fr/pdf/pevoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmcoverseaspvtltd.com/uploads/files/pagopavopojavapiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden-expert.com/userfiles/file/konami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/nosepuworono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texinpack.com/uploadfile/file///2021090920115964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accapierre.it/userfiles/files/tawowerosujuzarinibusiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altadirezione-consulting.it/userfiles/files/92912577302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/xexuwolabedan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/289870163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenferro.com/userfiles/file/3333366423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alirezamirmohammadi.com/images/upload/files/71149164119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rogetewaxedikakeruzegoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurdua.com/contents/files/14229422629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenboo.vn/uploads/files/juxaxojifasopaguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/savimiguwapixitoradirobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78140325200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dblbtech.com/userfiles/file/21472563055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/7301712782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkuysuujk.handysociality.com/upload/files/fetotoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613623eba2e19---50213644471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingkady.cn/uploadfile/files/68524078170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wmu24.ru/media/file/mufiramajemilulipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonspond.com/uploads/files/puremunezomuresujuvajos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=sim+4+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000d42e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD42E 16908 bytes
SHA-256: dbc160dc4c9e091c5d260367f99f59c26485c549f7fc0c13ea4dad7a2dac91e6
font_01_sfnt_off0001001e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1001E 10148 bytes
SHA-256: 41c0709495f08aac7897660b1a0addf68259e962e92f344f2ab1605b7363b24a
font_02_sfnt_off000116d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1