Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4f70d6a198b15a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:04:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 528e93ce9d843e4e183a3c9b3189925c SHA-1: fa60e04d658dd60a3d2549cc1639212d02b3b998 SHA-256: a4f70d6a198b15a2dab837750dc0804547f192651849e86037c5a6566b545213
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It impersonates a cloud document sharing service, a common lure for phishing attacks. The PDF contains numerous external URLs, many of which are part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the PDF and its embedded URLs strongly indicate it's part of a phishing campaign, likely leading to credential theft or further malware download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=office+365+login+education PDF link annotation
    • http://15881588.com/ckupload/files/64642145835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/sixobonamaborol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-eamplus.de/web/editor/files/88493232460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalwonders.com/uploads/files/87969714604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebammenglueck.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25449317470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajasthanmetals.com/userfiles/file/88347234086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/89049398480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://km2804.com/ckupload/files/lidasosem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klccpa.com/userfiles/file/65765867079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickform.cz/obrazky/files/23221308657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhnienxp.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/ligumutizulux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/69394977964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/18227752965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluboutletmoto.net/campannas/file/57413302343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infiniti.e-library.tw/uploads/files/69614123803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idroilektriki.gr/files/file/nufezasunosonazadam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/95671106082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a48dd72e0838eb889465252e14f2aa5/bibegeniwaxonegasoxuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/3370574680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpiano.net/userData/ebizro_board/file/26594703220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilprato.eu/userfiles/files/99551740123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetregistr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rakixajonoburike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/44086033246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kite-surf.sk/files/bulokoxelokosotomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000da97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA97 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 1b028574357690e3b990c434e9cf6f26702b1639b15fe445fee0a2e6ba1019cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF409 18120 bytes
SHA-256: 5cdb83785335afe3991cc5a927ee6135ca4cf5e1c44f1f9bf065d0618ce44c11
font_02_sfnt_off00012385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12385 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1