Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a911bca11f4c4e24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-09-27 07:50:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c37d7f20b892766e6c68e09703861908 SHA-1: 32685285933fc8769152ed05b84fffd9eddb6740 SHA-256: a911bca11f4c4e24c28a141b5cbd635cc6258e46cb1f11e183042774d60f5416
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, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and the link farm heuristic strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=punjabi+full+movie+online PDF link annotation
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/xipisumovedepodudojox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fratellibeninca.com/images/file/82452189668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maryamghiasi.com/images/upload/files/18191978486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandegroup.net/files/zakipalolosebenijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/41191548420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totounited.com/contents/files/rufokazezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrier.exma.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/disugurojerumewetobuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anm-av.de/uploads/files/wegavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image/files/11716633729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonwon.taipei/photo/file/tiwazojuzolodovavajasig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-stribro-investice.com/upload/files/babefewulujijiwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents/files/punavefiwotogapaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-food.pl/userfiles/file/fofajigojijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18dc69df18af0b99f63893518cd67dd9/voronafuvide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmk.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19799343440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/tixow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shimamura-mail-order.com/userfiles/file/30209493121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75063582089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuguwaxiwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decorstore.eu/upload/file/jelinikekokowabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89286562828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taispacedesign.com/upload/files/gevonatexevuxekajenagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weiddy.com/uploads/files/202109270648547187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakianco.ir/data/image/uploads/news/files/1382408044.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_off0000ae3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE3A 14856 bytes
SHA-256: bf1d14f14c722158f2bed9a4df1404f6474a28e70075a87205b18173d0c5dd1b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCE 10444 bytes
SHA-256: fbe14e571590a934086a2f9af1dd08cac213b53ffdbc609bcc8f13a7a66932cf