Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9837bb68f343a78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-10-12 05:51:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 220f906cb3733e3e3cea98bc4d547938 SHA-1: 584db9e37f320e8d94aa22e1da9f599da25042ec SHA-256: a9837bb68f343a78a08c2a73a47aa0927634aad6f5c0906622a081af8c85d59f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious domains and are part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

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://canhtoanland.com/upload/files/zinulurokinabizi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiumaniucarei.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luwinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210924082843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnc21.com/files/fckeditor/file/4112318886164d87a3b54c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64294113411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helenhotel.vn/upload/files/6921638813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namkhoasaigon.vn/web/images/files/welef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redemaisfarma.com/userfiles/file/92093261946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amata.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lokotixezimowipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdsliquorlocker.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/defagidadesoguzoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariondhuique-mayer.com/data/file/57118979288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/xabikabetuzoter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62293981694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-cosmik.ru/sadm_files/botasomakuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-etalon.ru/upload/files/16077972253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meandnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/miwiwolexunoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/62266354739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/60584337507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/nobomoted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contrast.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91904954248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viveironativodevicosa.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/levusubuwilabidobutipag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/veruwavobepunejok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210910_222108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64388baf9a37944bd72e49f3d8266d83/211414608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615185df0b761---nokodobijiseruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://headrepublic.pl/images/files/pivogarepuwegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/vItLtdF7Pec/uplcv?utm_term=flat+plate+collector+pdfPDF 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_off0000bbad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBAD 16964 bytes
SHA-256: 7a6d692b43a3d31ed23ebbcb2544c2d224ee3018146233751d11b785eb093ead
font_01_sfnt_off0000e718.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE718 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 5abcfb69320f7d4b5e74c8095ea92d8ec03c797b4b2ded0d47b36a3cca8e7537
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1