Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aab4aabe09c824b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-25 05:03:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 427a71a9e19e6b67973c42ee6e7eb537 SHA-1: 3e5d222454b1127be9da0cd79e899f05d743778e SHA-256: aab4aabe09c824b2e48bdeb301bdb3ec17c22bf6a2d9f0575e867ad7cd962fc1
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. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document contains numerous links pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a tactic to obscure malicious destinations. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://sgrappresentanze.eu/userfiles/files/padewexowam.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gabconstruction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/motiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/kebonowezukuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cad143628508b4535c0d69f24a4b191/51181042253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findusafranchise.com/files/files/bamazegezasebesisolovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58618775011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsitecomvn.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/vofifibefufojejenumuvid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16658872657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/kafutikaxasevodezuset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohingltd.com/userfiles/bolowalezegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/jididemobaxurefezigew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/24921279087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaibonomo.it/userfiles/files/56593574504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scpt.it/userfiles/files/wigutudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxhsbl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210917_123448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/50517268963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naylorrealty.com/userfiles/file/93936821415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents/files/vofudepuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://35ct1.com/images/ckImageFiles/files/14919850291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e10fa0dc0---94936875344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/vifawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydeothe.vn/rich_editor/file/37772301437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/38099171882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lbjgold.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48217398008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=man+alone+with+himself+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000b075.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB075 16320 bytes
SHA-256: 2e7a5a2cbbbabd3f3bd3f3eb7680eb6a601686ae1f408a0e849e146980fd661a
font_01_sfnt_off0000da62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA62 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f279.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF279 10740 bytes
SHA-256: a8dc5afbd025a6570ee5c417869aff056de0f3cdf089a5ace2c7d8919e335968