Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4baaa66803d5acd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-09-11 00:49:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9b75980a59a79a90fe5ef2587b912d71 SHA-1: 8abe82258edc3efcfa99561152c8960689c6720f SHA-256: a4baaa66803d5acd0ed7fe6f31b9fec5cc13e084074000f93fd34831e9299590
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on various domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this is a deliberate tactic for obfuscation and distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://jvcc.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2109102148310202428xvp2.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://takipbizde.com/calisma2/files/uploads/toguwupovexabawesoduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquitaine.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tusegogapalirumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jinesojawaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profesa.net/userFilesfile/1791149385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keifo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pokexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilpetrol.olajpark.hu/files/files/58995898758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/96058346690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebymtm.com/upload/files/56487528181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/nimejexetirodot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leruichem.com/upload/files/gokogaremirejupunuxerum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linuxnewyork.com/draft/media/76938001104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vpsystem.com/files/fck/ladutemomusokokunaguriko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1c430e084---2576914299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/vojora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackinthegym.com/uploads/files/202109052348526781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joinsocialbubble.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/64226374776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://automatisme-portail-bordazzi.fr/userfiles/fichiers/24217054612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunakeszi.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/vusesosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carolinevlieghe.fr/images/file/lewovoxesirixamowup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/meniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_CE2485429F0E85F7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pravkniga.ru/files/userfiles/files/sitaromekilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ufolep-69.com/contenus/files/54814023946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vatlieulamnha.com/media/ftp/file/44684869230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+fun+they+had+comprehension+questions+pdfPDF 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_off0000f79f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF79F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010fb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB1 19656 bytes
SHA-256: 2b9d92bdf06ed3db0415c6ccd44cf269a664d8704eeaa115bb9a9ce4c9410c4e
font_02_sfnt_off000143b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143B9 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 5ca1b2ff86ce9cdd456f5a1e8be63002dd873125b0255d2a1c2c0882cb004272