Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2e62434ad6fddda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-30 14:21:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 99e36f8314ae1d9aa3849adcca838c73 SHA-1: bc882f2e820a529f8c9950755d1cd59a3de761ec SHA-256: a2e62434ad6fdddadaa69671ee0af8611c2d770d2526129fcd5389d01681772b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious PDF files. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL distribution suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://cukrarska-vyroba.cz/UserFiles/File/99903971736.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mercerapparelss.com/userfiles/files/jonejogixutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52424935672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okuninka-biale.pl/userfiles/file/duwilozirotuligiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0411.com/userfiles/file/20210907231726_a50nui.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iasvn.org/Images_upload/files/73658118662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chamdure.com/DATA/files/50801240255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baby-daycare.com/uploads/files/202109071818079491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosenstein.lu/userfiles/files/wupitisurazak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bippex.com/filespath/files/20210918220119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/54793298306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bae7c394390bf2f7a024fb1ba3acc4d/99729735429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardensyellowcab.com/admin/images/file/788001017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/bigamokokuronijow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kapokcmassage.com/uploads/files/202109280009486186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tims.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/difipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210927_873AEDC97B093C50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153b83851eed---59600609999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banquat.com/userfiles/files/32804710672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yushendesign.com/images_fck/file/1632991624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinebuzz.be/uploads/userfiles/files/vusuxakevovunon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventexevent.se/uploads/file/384316270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsultantrading.ae/userfiles/files/77466298104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocgrafikavukatwebsitesi.demowebsiteleri.com/upload/files/68449083208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pcparts.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50004761826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniradioweb.info/userfiles/file/10979893559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+fan+edits+on+androidPDF 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_off0000b510.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB510 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD27 10640 bytes
SHA-256: e4d49f25607e590b0d9805cba0a685f14ba810a54c89b11e17321b55e949f580
font_02_sfnt_off0000e57f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57F 16336 bytes
SHA-256: c58a1afe00739e9c8bd9f4adf8135565cf983e0b929adac605897b76ccb260e0