Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9def1aa70176d2fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 13:17:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4469ae356eb216c9e3bf10a63ea75a13 SHA-1: 62eaf071d57276953745c22bd8af25535e86dee7 SHA-256: 9def1aa70176d2fcff141fa258c8959c2c8fbcd1a0353813e013e367f10f5104
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious domains and appear to be part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests a tactic to obscure the final malicious destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest it's used as a lure for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://giadinhlaurenso.org/upload/files/zedutujodinozixoxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210909030001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kevarogibazaxixakuvifim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/91778009390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/76058082428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kastely-vacduka.hu/fileok/file/49732556306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allineers.morefriendship.com/upload/files/vaganudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studybrilliant.online/app/webroot/img/userfiles/file/jolusatuwudanilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/7030959320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubkdo.fr/img/pics/files/dejipisutibigagatev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/napug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aumnat2car.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/27831498117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b10d0a9f6---faramoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32411195567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://se-ty.com/uploads/userfiles/file/fokasebaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hc6q220gdodtm6n7ghctnrr5nh/tubowepavitevej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/viwisozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcvizovice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48181456481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/pifosunaxajusibanodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ville-saintleonard.fr/pdf/78787008386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcimx.com/files/86544154698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanillasky-ch.com/images/files/55551779783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=android+find+apk+of+installed+appPDF 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_off0000d878.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD878 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 3192ec3869e251a416d60d8335501e31bc251aec553a096115d889eab3c54cfb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C8 17268 bytes
SHA-256: a8e41910cddd1f7e4b938cb2cda2974e0698c81d73e77774e3183d22e5f0d4f8