Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6574ef051e1bdcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 12:53:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 88eadc0b87dcb9cfd0bc32ed111f153f SHA-1: 71983c4f0d57f4db5e82e16c14af7cc9f670e955 SHA-256: a6574ef051e1bdcb7901ec2ebe1a7025f979f5e99eeafdfd52273eeb503ca9a6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm with numerous distinct hosts, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://hondaotohaiphong.vn/upload/files/62895311573.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ventensis.lt/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42041984898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10188f21a5a2adfc0252b58c8dee383b/40708689959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/91631437246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95684741931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demirlermetal.com/resimler/files/bupogorevetijudunate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/wavidowabizefufanuvaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///keridixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydtmuhendislik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90124418931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.lv/pictures/image/xusuzomerowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterlootour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_387499AC8B4CF327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trufeel.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/uploadfile/files/5346252267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisleri.genefied.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jetosabubed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicilyontable.it/userfiles/files/zudew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taigesw.com/upload/files/vasugilepetoxujiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujieshubao.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021090108470273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ybshajiang.com/userfiles/file/2021-09-06/210906201754501587umyml7y4vcfn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pvesc.vn/uploaded/file/37528609014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/81293563553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/fajavojoduxekiromo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/seguruludi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaldreamindia.com/webcms/file/fudiniremo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketphatthinh.vn/upload/files/melulujexozidalumofanog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32826084dc572a78dd76f8b919e26745/ronabilazusakabiwonir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertracapital.com/uploads/files/lamelalaboxusumudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctornhospital.com/banglanews24/editorsfiles/files/dawolowadirerufibumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=como+configurar+apn+movistarPDF 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_off0000d9fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9FD 19096 bytes
SHA-256: 7213f1e15f5325fd9f08bcb8c4fcc6886203228363375ae588519e3cb6403a18
font_01_sfnt_off00010bcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123E2 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 90cd120ec85cf2465f38ca8407e8a918d85cd14997fe3f197bf19d72947d22ea