Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9de30e40d6d16571…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-22 13:04:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: 263e369c5d6e56e5a436e4ff8768a913 SHA-1: a472ae89976a8b715aa63769a7eb33c61bb29f72 SHA-256: 9de30e40d6d1657119762839a30ff55480217b61c7ea450c26e2e4418d4b5627
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with a significant number pointing to domains that appear to be part of a link farm. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic firing indicates that the PDF is designed to host many links on disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or distributing malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://xn--jt2b56wn0ap2a.com/upload/file/202109190905247898.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adhunikjewellers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gukezafiwowokevag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cnn-logistics.com/asset/files/55052899053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bipaf.org/2009_home/upload/editor/file/68587852088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingbakerypans.com/userfiles/file/72647779233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasylhet.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88188768481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60636530068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daugiavanthienphuoc.com/media/ftp/file/82352540372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mos-craciun-inchiriere.ro/fckfiles/file/61980742341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackivy.pl/userfiles/file/zorisubunapijojugesisukod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smobiil.eu/userfiles/files/33217742744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angel-juicer.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210915_D248FD66A49041AB.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagnosticaedilizia.com/userfiles/files/peretokejagalej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/78118437432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://na-bytecek.cz/UserFiles/File/58412898502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elistaprezentow.pl/userfiles/file/zowifad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cpsguffanti.it/uploads/file/24046984829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austdoorcaocap.com/upload/files/finuwosax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sacc-la-chaux-de-fonds.ch/fichiers/file/sofejiniliwotiwobakeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alev.az/userfiles/file/21800044232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24aqari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/furetunomagiweguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/totu0pp2tforaa02ki05uehfo7/lusedatozudabenavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=black+friday+reading+comprehension+answersPDF 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_off0000e73a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE73A 11312 bytes
SHA-256: dd8e6e637e104183b58434af0eba7867c8563ed8675fca11b0f7ff5d14d18628
font_01_sfnt_off0001017a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1017A 18608 bytes
SHA-256: 3baa550b645529b92dd1a8eb6a9f45ae6d6e10a2e1644c0c8c2dda17129c0914
font_02_sfnt_off00013184.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13184 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1