Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a12a107afd7f3b7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 15:01:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c5209ffa9812b3e3feb53fd7c8a7d021 SHA-1: e4801b1bf429be03b7dc5a4548a2e386f9874c1a SHA-256: a12a107afd7f3b7bb7128de193aee5f6e3030aaee98f674dba18ba81da43a8a2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to what appears to be a link farm, with the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicating a potential for malicious redirection or phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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 http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/57763295345.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50382660294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taxivanclass.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/89090707956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martas.vodrsport.cz/uploads/files/5944319194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangallagn.com/images/file/66868646183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lobanowscy.pl/userfiles/file/3015663976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topnotchimports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27640307853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/walinupujamojibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xecuoihuyhoang.com/uploads/userfiles/file/12384993730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlondonblvd.com/uploads/files/lipolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valentine.tutaylamhet.com/storage/ckfinder/files/pefutilanifegipox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/68930549369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-rubber.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/98597274855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/24581051020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/64170616433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiaavcilar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kugerowuvumonufegomixifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasymusic.it/userfiles/files/dudalatuzobesapokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starcity-vinhomes.vn/app/webroot/img/files/vivisazesupafigepivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zapatosperezcabrera.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45935210922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamcohoaian.com/webroot/img/files/tutatapupuxojarurezaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cappellastudio.it/userfiles/files/49954151317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stauarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/97563354818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mousumibanerjee.com/fckimages/file/66307277785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/rizenupezeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=android+download+location+pathPDF 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_off0000d3d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE6 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 8a028ff11a40f2b56895879d1e41fbd20a96291160b8566cc38826dd84533acd
font_02_sfnt_off00011970.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11970 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 540a99b3ddbde6303fa6e04ab20cf17ea77c8aaf81e6d5d58e3d4761a1a5259d