Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9afd2f8e0c9cf90d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-26 04:26:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 095fc0a9a8dcbf171a3d4015b46abdae SHA-1: 2e2c5250067a1b863e9e1bb145a343cffce7022a SHA-256: 9afd2f8e0c9cf90d9cb5b616db54f96fc81d1bbcf6a0ee53ba85e3cb7fcf2ba0
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically identifies the document as a link farm designed to host many links on disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=https+android+googleapis+com+gcm+send PDF link annotation
    • https://shiokuda2.com/contents/files/67504922729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushinamu.com/uploads/files/11782091712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70349439951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euro-m.si/web/dokumenti/file/dodagopemalajupeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damosushipleasanthill.com/uploads/files/11927298151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snowcat.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wofajerofarop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulv-fogger.ru/d/files/10914334922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10649049558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64934487534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriailgalloelinnamorata.com/userfiles/files/fujijufiwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudureornementalelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/nifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libertyrealestate.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/supazixesovumup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldmotorsclub.com/files/file/kizepexipubozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biographiewerkstatt-singer.de/userfiles/file/lugepofenetagijewowemana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yellowmangocafe.com/userfiles/file/tanadoraxidimeguwimaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastcoastbiker.de/sites/default/files/file/84763508507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alhurwallpaper.com/Files/files/28631273514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zevkotodoseme.com/upload/ckfinder/files/5512303763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilayunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nakirazosenajamikole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelmitrutarija.com/uploaded/files/58639467812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/file/fuxumifudujirofezaduxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corpeverest.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30870150101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b0b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0B4 15692 bytes
SHA-256: 3350a1f8e7dce3a07becc806d37b21ca4584b87beb53fca85c5933f3e4626fb0
font_01_sfnt_off0000d874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD874 10848 bytes
SHA-256: e23b3399eda7502ed1fbabe6f7ca4ac1a41fc25568fc47db611ea0bcda507d38
font_02_sfnt_off0000f130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF130 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1