Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c1ee71c1709b680…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 10:04:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0361dc1fb43fecbd88a19370e436ed6f SHA-1: 3ae59665921f86930c4dabd9dfbe40242f039d81 SHA-256: 9c1ee71c1709b6801f2d3fb905c3efcd718bfba2dcfa9da3b3e9212b91f20ba5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, which is characteristic of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The `PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM` heuristic further supports this, indicating a high volume of links on potentially untrustworthy hosts. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the link farm structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://cobrawire.com/userfiles/files/watexixev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akpanlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/natovob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festacreativita.org/userfiles/file/2420038317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/63788375855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easy2ticket.com/upload/files/pulatomupipapudelozikijid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmechanicsville.com/uploads/files/tefirepezevegunopawonuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/5409361344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131cddb748f6---71818872553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocatoandreabruschi.it/userfiles/files/46722401183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetcarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/magesidididesub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusbetaja2.com/contents/files/33211919415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presstone.hu/userfiles/file/xixawanalajimuruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iva-vietnam.com/userfiles/file/vowozifonubepabokirosumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tataservice.it/userfiles/file/surabisoraju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charming-dc.com/uploads/files/202109081222064344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimi.sk/userfiles/file/nifikagasarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconltd.pl/cache/file/vimosawegomijula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aa6f7c19fb---fipugawosetapebegupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilbertems.com/videos/file/lewuredepizesezuxivukor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movimientofamiliadejesus.com/images/uploaded/file/61115233734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/lugavure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwayinn.com/image/files/20210911_165001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodomacnosti.net/data/file/nubiwajef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=traspasar+contactos+de+android+a+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_off0000e148.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE148 19988 bytes
SHA-256: 6c24337d4aff0be57b0c3a1aa9611b9d3294055325bef33ea7ec6bbab0dd94ae
font_01_sfnt_off00011488.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11488 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C9F 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 78e09645aa5799d123b6fbf83838ebb1a0086528ad6bb4361221b184f551f2ec