Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a4ffa1715357107…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 13:43:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 49a661e59184ed9247adcece46fbdfdf SHA-1: 894c7586ef69f22ba490d6d2ad792f3bad8970a6 SHA-256: 9a4ffa1715357107b5b75f3ffde5916c27c326eb09459c74e3bae619d6194141
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file 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 is part of a link farm, and numerous unknown URLs were extracted, suggesting a distribution or redirection mechanism. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the link farm heuristic point towards a phishing or SEO-based attack pattern.

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://fusiongrup.ro/userfiles/file/53038605398.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://showdoimovel.com/files/files/vosaxuvazupuxigemenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambartakip.net/belgeler/file/66988743033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pegastelco.com/pictures/files/17379530999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcwan.com/userfiles/file/detadusekitewuluzupagovuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempatpasang.com/contents/files/guxepisemegevusonalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoto.us/Images_upload/files/81694166847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/mimigetupazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xeroxexpres.cz/userfiles/file/nukeseredawisilop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-affaires.com/img/pics/files/42580564208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmakonnect.org/DrumiBhatt/karmakonnect.org/Final/ckeditorimage/files/71352966553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorsilawfirm.com/userfiles/file/35683306930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/23636334628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_6A85AC12DDD446FA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/20941971755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizedadosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/md5dmic4hh8am3e4r5dqqelrjr/vujorapusexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkeempat.com/contents/files/44675462924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/82255086362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131310fa5034---24151584522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.specemc.ru/upload/files/58321146838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weldingportal.it/userfiles/file/429780540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibookingkr.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_8C951D47E3D83360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.theknowledgeonline.com/files/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81836515358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=fifa+mobile+generator+without+verificationPDF 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_off0000e3a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBBA 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 188c80a65a1812d98dba77a1d941f67b530722f7d5554fe138965d41118a9328
font_02_sfnt_off0001150e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1150E 17872 bytes
SHA-256: badd208da1119e7c64a52bece656a392fd42a2ffb96f19d9142c248cef01535c