Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ef603717ca68e84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 09:28:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9f22191d170ba091e0018741105240b4 SHA-1: 2fc6385f02011ebc154fa82832070ea4039e91f2 SHA-256: 9ef603717ca68e8425e159f7b474821856bdd7f56bd5193884eb522fa2092b97
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV and an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm with numerous external URIs, many hosted on potentially disposable domains. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM firings suggests a deliberate attempt to obscure the true destination or host a large number of malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://savoie-outils-coupants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/felijatuwikowakano.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://madeirashopping.com/userfiles/file/jozeraburevojujalujepes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interconformity.ro/images/file/97189980879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/jufunikolovewujexifaxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161349dbbc8dbc---99521349653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f59e412cfb---5356915026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetaihyundai.net/upload/files/zafovuworiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/57963241968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shimamura-mail-order.com/userfiles/file/jaxufanafokelerafer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mesadiragozudoresi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/vazusirukupikilupakigimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personnelstrategies.net/userfiles/file/89318522505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntep2008.com/UserFiles/File/10352161014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/50984553956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamaeassociates.com/images/uploads/originals/file/ralejobaxeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qwerty.pl/_data/file/77328962454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasolution.kr/userfiles/file/duxerekas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/vudaputupugekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.frank-diagn.hu/userfiles/files/43671431200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orcasproje.com/userfiles/file/42253828749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://disonde.com/filespath/files/20210902161214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/purolamuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/46181379862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=favourite+day+of+the+weekPDF 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_off0000ce70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE70 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 351eb004213e13e72715ac35a564e76b4c5d32fe8cf80d77eeaff96baf07be97
font_01_sfnt_off0000fad9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112F0 10568 bytes
SHA-256: adb70503c20ff0ddfc18459e5fc05fd8502cfa781f356c10b853c09cd69dcd3e