Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9559e06fa31f2ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 16:21:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d0dc8e8b016709c747cb94a9945cc0b1 SHA-1: 3c9cdc72b3df172bf56db652c658b68ba486c075 SHA-256: a9559e06fa31f2ed58154612cc711ee63b804b016591d5c0ac6f7a33c0a3c648
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

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, indicating a probable phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this is not a legitimate document but a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=caustic+mastering+apk+full PDF link annotation
    • https://actsonics.com/uploads/files/202109110102363119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienthaopc.com/upload/FCK/file/35305301022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyea.org/imageuploads/5766830163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_75CB0F81D1C0632D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0e4535d4647422789d5d09bb818ac38/sedenitamiwekel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riwg.in/userfiles/file/gigixotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vandiestbrandstoffen.be/uploads/files/kazenanexunabiwutixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digbijoynath.in/uploads/userfiles/files/kujojererumogusidoluva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damotevasowegiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zd-zeta.com/uploads/files/202109122308579767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patidarpalanpur.com/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jonodexawenawatinaguri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/xogozukameburex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opt-russtd.ru/data_center/upload_pictures/file/sudegonasunewude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614033d06d4d5---1403716995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marisqueandopremios.com/campannas/file/74784154155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilsports.ro/userfiles/file///xefezaxeronodepigexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bladensburg.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/80912823590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://losmarinoslanzarote.com/marinarubicon/admin/file/furejabefek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/rezutax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idosekotthonaveresegyhaz.hu/files/files/rabubebumujigagokuvekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mskgroup-spb.ru/upload/file/nesebixetedak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/jebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hsbofmn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97052396992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgo-bage.com/public/files/files/55612913739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pavoxiveragofofafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzion-u-zamku.cz/files/file/99395973192.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_off0000d832.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD832 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF049 10928 bytes
SHA-256: c89f9b12de6bd4fbc6e9fc6d5227e52aae11f517a2ac66e93efbc3b9d31fd716
font_02_sfnt_off0001099d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1099D 18408 bytes
SHA-256: 5d99f2ee3376c8e30edbed6b326c17a3b358b6c3917c6a65dfb9a3d3dda821df