Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a60bcc605727ee7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 14:28:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a703fbd6e3e967eccf731fdace2ae10b SHA-1: 2a071a9711bd94ac1855bbdf5ed22e8947e41801 SHA-256: a60bcc605727ee7e0ce744e66207c1f9a12004e91854d19936659c7230902d1d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 disposable hosting or link farms, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this is a link farm designed for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 https://hotlinepro.in/admin/userfiles/file/pexagonurivizupejezuza.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b79bb653ea---wuzigekixamatisevazojova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceresasrl.it/userfiles/files/fadulebitivefawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apex-architect.ru/images/file/25392743206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0819dd49700047e6e0b4f4727b1792a/8373060209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forexinc.ca/upload/editor/file/bovemokewumaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourgrodno.by/images/content/file/31233166389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kedehg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32123363523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-gospodarstwo.eu/files/file/3693355352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agroanaliz.by/upload/editor/files/2281423324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozt.zielonetarasy-cieplice.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/48881426005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-boussard-chablis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1524300771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-rad.pl/userfiles/file/77043347144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/vozatubavonakisewoxedab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shamayachts.com/upload/file/revisofiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tainanrup.longi.tw/uploadfiles/files/20210910_062144_6528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyorderfood.com/uploads/files/68312096453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yunglin.com/uploadpic/files/jodewawewasukibafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nifaelectronics.com/userfiles/file/98188745938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tichdiem.surecare.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/seropow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargoservice.pl/cargoservice/userfiles/file/94596954958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangphong.vn/uploads/image/files/vemeranaregifekipefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anhhuynoithat.com/asset/files/wikebisekijesepef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://net-marketing.hu/images/files/16705530748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=suguha+kirigaya+sword+art+onlinePDF 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_off0000fae8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAE8 21968 bytes
SHA-256: 9d806817d42e8563f6f334380b5d68515fa6318c6975d936cfe9d67313231a0d
font_01_sfnt_off0001350a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1350A 10992 bytes
SHA-256: e3c5a59917359d4346aacc2f3c466d69fae2948b8d69803a784022c106799fe4
font_02_sfnt_off00014e6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1