Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d95d327814748e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 14:27:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d496802049e34689470d3822fb4f1e24 SHA-1: a360ca5b9f25ad15eb955b531470f87e30547800 SHA-256: 9d95d327814748e025f7142400589431213ad7859dfd1758a5af964c0600e22e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, hosting numerous links to disposable domains, with one specific URL containing a UTM term suggesting a lure for a game app download. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=asphalt+9+game+app+download PDF link annotation
    • http://ty6600.com/userfiles/file/72285737021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vpecargo.com/userfiles/file/28424260535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/44358389589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesciencenetwork.org/uploads/files/wolegositudola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://membranekeyboard.pl/_data/file/latodemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjgjqmr.com/v15/Upload/file/202191814013216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/81136968499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138427d95bb3---14947646151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onsijsselstein.nl/userfiles/files/rebonapidofixob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copy-office.it/userfiles/file/vebokagigur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.coverseg.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/76313045688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dr-onesrl.com/userfiles/files/xezapupela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/17479753937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://druckmaschinenservice.com/uploads/fce/files/manijanakibujofana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73666038954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaskunstcentrum.nl/images/file/22980211121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accutindustry.com/Upload/files/20210916082739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedcal-wpbe.com/uploads/file/30282714288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://privatecambodiatour.com/userfiles/file/4793550560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careerroots.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pimadusuxitenurisija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/zadajuvizigamuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandp.ru/userfiles/file/45653390478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/32634681037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giovanniseneca.eu/userfiles/files/15681349420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1ai/files/file/39888506430.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_off0000ce33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE33 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 3137837f183da3d4a874d3d2f97528c4e000f490d97101de34f06af78af2469e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE720 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF32 17684 bytes
SHA-256: 5f7d614b570c85d3ed974cc0f788fa5594c74243ac99346c3014fdf30c28601c