Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5eab0e687a8f84b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-26 05:55:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1d0a9111bb4c10b93272f2c6f2a92ad8 SHA-1: d3f88afdbdae1608826bc3fe47da2e5d18a65de3 SHA-256: a5eab0e687a8f84b57f90c973ab464056925889d7635843721315390ddd6caf5
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. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using small PDFs on disposable hosting to redirect users, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://wsystem.sk/userfiles/files/22014413239.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://spc1991.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mepanozelajomowidisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baozhaopharma.com/upload/files/47459138635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodemveenweiden.nl/bodem-veenweiden-img/32920839641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebornfair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210918_BA69A9742E83AD10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seatraderhk.com/userfiles/49701990271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanposthotel.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21209507860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ppogrimall.com/upload/editor_image/file/81552471358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/litekegesedobas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e21a7974ee---wojep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70442398960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8733524074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizergranulatorprice.com/d/files/39440940275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lordoptika.hu/files/files/26636597845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjjjsh.com/uploads/files/dofog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f707eabcba---68060933515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishtech.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/vilufogajiboke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckysim.com/userfiles/file/36162616220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sinokafivobavizefam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomontironi.eu/userfiles/files/15932953377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademia-jedenastka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/voboberanefosutomegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humidorio.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dumojoxiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://larben.cz/media/images/upload/file/69454543086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/fudegoneruwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/nezomirefefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+create+a+background+service+in+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_off0000b05a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB05A 14888 bytes
SHA-256: 0d1dd3b848eb0f5cfa068dab3bf08129ae806d03bc8ce3bf52eb10138494620f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d594.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD594 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 8a0d844c3f9e4c79f1c099442c750ac19e9010d1e75ce75c5bace7c8a1d9248a
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1