Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cacb1b5a18e3c2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-25 01:04:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: df86542eff8e6b110081445062b4b295 SHA-1: 8ede176b49ad20bce3d60919ab73ef14da6374bb SHA-256: 9cacb1b5a18e3c2fe03a9d10848d596f8861fee5ed2b77400554e0b07c87898b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file 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 and are structured as a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a deliberate attempt to obscure the true malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizumuzobumorodidofo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161455bf67f7cc---38543552255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalimati.in/userfiles/file/66441095652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/suruka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomisszio.hu/tmp/83859342828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/391793518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigyikesmedia.com/home/xtremweb/public_html/consultinstitute/web/upload/files/27253580148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lor-rostov.su/userfiles/files/wojajisufoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iglozawiercie.pl/zdjecia/file/bulopimaverarum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giorgiosantinelli.it/file/81075869362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagodilovaspark.hu/userfiles/file/fiteji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobil-tech.com/files/18762229630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aczv.fr/userfiles/file/xojoruzup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///2754596251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blnk.eu/userfiles/files/jusazufeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/30610058073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wenorarirazumevexofit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uflo.edu.ar/ckfinder/archivos/documentos/14784844651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bisenzia.it/userfiles/files/26127882666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/winixepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamatudarbai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gowisopemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazuma.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43129482313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorapeyzaj.com/userfiles/file/61014971705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlmlaw.com/images/edit_images/file/36192446786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/xelaluzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=call+recording+storagePDF 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_off0000b7a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFBB 17056 bytes
SHA-256: bc0a82f3c6369346dcc94083c82f410fc70990bfb75432298b74451822c98cbb
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB57 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 3e726019be43738d436bab657ddf925c4675df433f4b896d57d61732557d06c3