Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f796bba9cab13b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-27 08:54:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5892b290c2e7ba81b8f5a5069aaff49f SHA-1: c9b38a75238a9b810754b1cda2aaf35a356dbac2 SHA-256: 9f796bba9cab13b24e4d5790cd28cb6a05b1f55bb5529a03713d93cff9a0fb24
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious PDF files on various domains, and one heuristic identified it as a link farm on disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the detection suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://ww150006.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210919070800.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rpelektromont.cz/admin/obrazky/file/61702214601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/marenunug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.integra-cr.cz/administrace/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55290643402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147b9835852a---dirapatititazovasoregises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/50289301722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/7410315348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdenito.net/userfiles/file/mexizumiwaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roland-toys.eu/userfiles/file/sotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614af727e90e0---juwotojatujivipixene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/86695049043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/texaxaromizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/rakativejivopipelixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marchmont.ru/imgs/file/88444820656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageofwonders.buka.ru/sadm_files/nawagitokapirazoluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativetechno.in/userfiles/file/jinetekigubejobubenuzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://platypusspot.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sugofevuwuvixonuzenikofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210927_2563A2687FC870F3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unibox.lv/files/text/41628529380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hlj-vibration.com/uploads/image/20210912/files/20210912224420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13268015384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/gaxekisuganerobosejomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saito-ken.jp/userdata/file/79316172161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurhijau.com/contents/files/32759795742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=design+of+everyday+things+chapter+1+summaryPDF 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_off0000b2f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2F3 11356 bytes
SHA-256: e06331b5274b8e02ed39e6e3dba70aa689d90d72ab11b3526debe75574579a83
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e585.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE585 15512 bytes
SHA-256: f73f668c0c96da3032f039e6c593c5629c4d423aba371558696d0d889f451071