Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dce58ff878650ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 07:37:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: c989b13789ae46bbd16dcdc8cfa2b71c SHA-1: 1529f6e502435abd2882b2593be5e277dc352c5f SHA-256: 9dce58ff878650ec3e9da3b8a6ec6884ce2fc5af8f8df3bc1f97a5b50afdee74
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 a large number of embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests a malicious intent to distribute harmful content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point to a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=road+warrior+hacked+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/pawusizema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-vv.dk/userfiles/file/27139827075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaifilmind.com/UserFiles/file/47104801059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eecpowerindia.com/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bunopokamaxeratadisimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emotionalgift.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/logoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lircai.com/web/inline/file/dusetodaguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e68b2c05c4---58145073337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actybrain-consult.com/Upload/files/doxakuvulotavotifegaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popmetre.com/news/files/vosebopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proart.by/media/file/80295633639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blnk.eu/userfiles/files/97250638934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://distriparkbotlek.nl/userfiles/files/desudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuontoanthang.com/media/file/87993167812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovad-ltd.com/userfiles/file/29929496978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mp2020.csysadmin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78385595164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galerie45.com/userfiles/file/datono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elai.kz/upload/2021/09files/210912064553309314xl1gv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yepuco.com/uploads/files/laxakenatimekurajamuwele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heatandgas.com/EditorImages/file/tedaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baruraprotidin.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/pigamile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelborgodeipoeti.com/userfiles/files/gizeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24cars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luwewitesupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82176705078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsublimation.net/uploadfile/files/xobezulamulawabaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thibangoto.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/62056903150.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_off0000bb9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB9C 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 8f4116a5bfe38953175e94bea3192ecc1202a75284d5587e10b5acae2d7fa41f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d35f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD35F 19632 bytes
SHA-256: dd3dd6b2f4d03aea88c4ced689e07f1c7a424363f7e21b272998a732845cb398
font_02_sfnt_off00010616.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10616 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1