Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa8978d703a43c57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 12:35:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 706d072b88fe1822660fa5d1a6e8b93d SHA-1: 1e04925e95db65461d563b07e1a3e97b215543e8 SHA-256: aa8978d703a43c57263fc44cda3ec4c7830dcd475594d7c7aa176ba72aa7946e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous distinct domains, many of which host PDF files. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://illustrations.noche.fr/images/files/rapavugofivimufibajomuli.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anduong-nhatthanh.com/uploads/news_file/73959825809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/munifuzoxukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokumsuzgec.com/userfiles/files/tavulixarilofonum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamhelios.vn/luutru/files/lepozafugimajirogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/miziletila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202109file/2021090914285170554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mofrantech.com/userfiles/file/22957623077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ec5d632a0---11876794417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoga-privates.com/yoga-privates/file/xijizug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njshore.drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/gikev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dogudusolewanitokisaxuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildzipper.com/clients/wildzipper/userfiles/file/dumokufokugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/78259974520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mycoapaisyl.com/webimages/files/70656868133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogcdc.org/uploads/ck_upload/files/90305997556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dga.gr/ILC/img/file/numeduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/detanepibitivupala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dighakanchaninternational.com/FCKeditor/file/20512768905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speculatio.in/userfiles/file/4577002872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartwealthhk.com/userfiles/18728446167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/90693515935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613026153c08f---1213324017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sloepverhuur-debiesbosch.nl/upload/files/7322596863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=the+elder+scrolls+blades+apk+modPDF 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_off0000dbc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC6 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 2c54e8416504771edbb0332742d312bb80d73a1f4747ea17d42430ae7d637792
font_01_sfnt_off0000f40c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF40C 18032 bytes
SHA-256: b8a8725c4533fa6e856ae1056ba120496c414c000fa661ec94ed2ab1563f54bb
font_02_sfnt_off00012207.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12207 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1