Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ff87ee702321dbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 22:54:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: eaff1e066be01f2e11a429093149f58a SHA-1: 94675b73e4d67afc33c63a55a5ee42e0da705df2 SHA-256: 9ff87ee702321dbb6f19f728b10a7c5def5da33722ee9b6480831d43912ca6a0
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to PDF files on distinct domains, suggests a link farm or distribution network. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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://bokaichenyu.com/upload/files/lekeruvelakewapago.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/kowikabidewosusipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuh-tarng.com/userfiles/file/81120131879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/61513388213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/53733400769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/pepewodenob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feynburg-uhren.de/uploads/88967905018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rujiahk.com/uploadfiles/file/tuxuridutesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-ark.it/userfiles/files/15907005093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madurastones.com/userfiles/file/48019684225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/88752761952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misterholidaysanprisco.it/userfiles/files/xitafudijifitiwupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alicantea.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/pusoluxabarokafutapete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatminhtrading.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/resaxepefakomewolimikik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161313d30697d0---fosanonone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/kosezikopagizanovobomugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckm-machinery.com/userfiles/files/76695163357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longbeach.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/vimatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c8a24a575638550f5cc75c2988d9eab/vofagipima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/11564807777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/78255793662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijpdua.com/contents/files/pakiremijiwowixomenoxusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmikkino.ru/sadm_files/kezimosutefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inannamsao.com/uploads/files/88003125885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aatmicscience.org/asuserfiles/file/lesepaporoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clainvest.pl/userfiles/file/91567012591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurodegranizo.ar/noticias/fckeditor/file/8251243271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=world+edit+apkPDF 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_off0000c6f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF09 17652 bytes
SHA-256: 1ae32bdb9f5258679568efafb0c8f915d0867bf27e28be9fd72238a724f6a648
font_02_sfnt_off00010ca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA1 10196 bytes
SHA-256: 25de04ad0fac460da03c04b6501c7b2f29a08966dc209b936a6bbc2f40077e84