Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a497768593831f9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 11:51:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 44e8c26a3e7a8b4c5358b1178f0eed6d SHA-1: 22b154c51fe1962683cd4fb7459bd3c037b9984b SHA-256: a497768593831f9fe9754f93a8e2edcfc73a602e86c25eca175365e7d93b8236
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan variant. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are likely part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users through multiple sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the link farm heuristic indicate a likely attempt to deliver a secondary payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73407890216.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://michardardillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81318029980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/wazisifosumefosirapikevot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adesso-moosburg.de/images/file/75069148110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakersfield.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/99663460254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://obermeyer-modemarkt.de/upload/file/62690356910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spprp.pl/userfiles/file/89463097999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesei.com/In PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344dcee7662---73378725268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/wumonewexegaxuluti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamlineparkplaza.com/assets/amund/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuboso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/dozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b684667ba26190b330a606386271bd2d/pomonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiyaslo.com/uploads/files/vuwapexuniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alompar.hu/uploads/content_files/files/41377062345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lean-ds.com/upload/editor/file/mepafelazexitupexuwire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/pijovezamekarovovozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81669152786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexi-cms.com/uploads/file/42752916031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web-news.eu/www/pkpar/userfiles/file/88007965305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/paxofajebolefiloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/74433229155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagm.it/userfiles/files/gadofejusekituvixipuluwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90357205157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogable.de/userfiles/file/bumuxurovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rux-thai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58952552823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=heartland+season+14+putlockerPDF 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_off0000bc91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A8 10728 bytes
SHA-256: c70a02bca037da608fe6c46d5595061702a874d46f268ae9026aa774f425dbce
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED7C 17028 bytes
SHA-256: 41181b89f5224bd6df3775848202adaf9449a6543c9815db2ab9a4de5c527d7a