Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cecf01fee31557e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-10-09 00:55:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: 99d9c0a95d53fe4e702a2235a218b93d SHA-1: 34cdbb5ad784c1c391178ce82537b6899346e788 SHA-256: 9cecf01fee31557ebbcf9792b6495227344acca13eeb842d4992abd310c0355f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It contains numerous external URLs, with one specifically identified as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a redirection mechanism. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards an attack pattern involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or social engineering to redirect users to malicious sites.

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 https://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=benjamin+on+the+mimetic+faculty+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/48763123001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equimat-cheval.fr/file/31826255286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/vuletevafewepupajodilefox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internet-trade.cz/UserFiles/file/menazowebegobasikafubukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rkenterprisesonline.com/FCKeditor/file/73968633168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krasneclanky.cz/uploads/79987666033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/vifobujamifidizisofawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hairandoil.com/uploads/2585360141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/kefaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geo-equipe.it/userfiles/files/zarolopaloveriwebeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinashop.bg/files/zifasoranonijirubego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patriabrno.cz/userfiles/files/45111010403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.ee/media/contents/file/44423373743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351966e05c6---bexewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/pakutowujefafone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/gevekat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/suzejuzowojaxexesilijepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161515d75e90a3---tokujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/28985804815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baldonimarcostudio.eu/userfiles/files/53133489999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramhuonghanoi.vn/upload/files/14372938959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vecsecity.info/editor_up/zixidetupikude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lactopad.com/uploads/files/titejikawerolajusisoxomip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/UserFiles/files/50526599422.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_off0000e22c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE22C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA43 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 9ef38a77bed81c9496ef1da2b097a5442735bf81a1c25f19af60acb4fb699739
font_02_sfnt_off000113a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A5 17952 bytes
SHA-256: f20bcfd341ac1e32861bd40f782c4ad7c2d4c5756afee1d2763621c975db7a6b