Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9afe5ef87ca049a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2021-09-25 15:09:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: bc729322609e2ab1303e11c9671bd666 SHA-1: c60642e5b8fbc2c0aa095c81fed130e39772dd1d SHA-256: 9afe5ef87ca049a87e14e5743ee476313a8fadc4d2e292e94292bed5acf36010
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. The document contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to PDF files on various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URIs and the overall structure point towards a phishing lure, likely intended to deliver a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://smogy.ru/files/files/62312652232.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://landia-print.com/pdir/file/pejasodafoperav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents/files/sigubitasejiduxureruduwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e7c0eed3c0---83317505349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mastirz.com/userfiles/files/werejomozulixulagoxujerep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.boldino-hotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31339632717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isigakizima.net/img/tmp/file/39290039467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glovimex.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/31951315092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallarpurnaisuva.org/go/file/64688099146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuhuonglacquer.com/uploads/news_file/71019101953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daming-school.com/userfiles/file/serad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fqcycpa.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210912102014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamaro.cz/images/fcke_files/file/77224843831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.com/Sites/cds/files/befevefivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloemenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/melijanejegosurusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movietek.vn/hinh-anh/files/kaxefizisolujixigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zangerlelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zemuzutajefureniguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennycojewelry.com/userfiles/files/202109/1632458298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosaicopeoplecorporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64410087282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/70808509992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/wolibilodisakotepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucqhouse.com/uploads/image/files/vusad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sooclose.eu/upload/File/32245936333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+go+rooted+androidPDF 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_off0000ae1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE1F 14696 bytes
SHA-256: 81ac683903b045e069b22515396e6371d5e742bd75a94f6820cec11a9b921b21
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB14 10472 bytes
SHA-256: e5ef59b9589ae491c5999412a912754d7bf7050f408acc6221a7cb0195bbf501