Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ddcd572a10fdac0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 17:37:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: f36aaf46c838e36ee1e0c542356be9d7 SHA-1: 32d0e12de42bc174aa026292ef7cab08306eb79e SHA-256: 9ddcd572a10fdac0794d9486d1d2be9542c23de0d4766d25d3ef34c846b3cf1a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document contains numerous links to disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure malicious destinations or distribute various payloads. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://pb-book.com/user_file/file/43635056431.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d88f356f3---34128727837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vin-baietii.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36168282262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunianco.com/other_files/File/24631868882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/tixoxotavuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc61041351ae1574b6126b9cae71622f/71356239726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mmd.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tojixavifimib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irfanmakina.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/91427851297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fd.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92246497638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtarrytowndeli.com/uploads/files/totemeluxenalasumirusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saintarseny.ca/sites/saintarseny.ca/files/file/vozulopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturestuff.nl/siteimages/file/petobexuzivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euchebnici.com/img/file/delijowezefopukatexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mediawerf.nl/bundles/store24backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72033061870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onroerendgoedindex.nl/images/uploads/25124541335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tko.wavedev.net/img/files/files/dafuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-13/20210913082026625452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madeinstlucia.com/userfiles/files/53284111276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glovimex.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/fasirapevatubosag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9600634541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kechengchem.com/upload/files/laranob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=watch+frozen+2+full+movie+123moviesPDF 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_off0000f568.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF568 11164 bytes
SHA-256: ace8cd346a73a443c9783e8d68c61612cba1a9fb9f67004baca125b25f7def50
font_01_sfnt_off00010f87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F87 17520 bytes
SHA-256: 156aa93b0605c48348bb2d3ed166e871f5355a94b0da9adaaf3f22a25da658d8
font_02_sfnt_off00013c87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C87 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1