Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab05575f783cf65d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 17:24:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a173f023742b10aa801f6cde4eb3bcb0 SHA-1: b42b34fb476e22f4ea0a2c3237451ad1438895d8 SHA-256: ab05575f783cf65d9997a6286b6d56f5857b8987a739d02ff285b2502b127da6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document 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, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The heuristic PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM confirms this behavior, suggesting the PDF is used to redirect users, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://eiak.org/upload/editor/files/26655299219.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://2safe4u.cz/UserFiles/File/tudixonezonikup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusburbank.com/uploads/files/gefuxumevuken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36356969310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/83128004226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobilestore.de/userfiles/file/16808937663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136eebdf02b7---1569979727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhdjt.com/images/upload/File/24275669134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/fawamesozepoxelewalifex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doina.md/fckeditorfiles/file/51473857736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smarttechsolutionukltd.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/jakabunurokabij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secretinvitation.net/images/files/jugidifobufibavokefik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://360global.ca/userfiles/file/15152707385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetraeng.it/userfiles/files/vuganax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertwestlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/7825081238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilienjrubin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/57792196137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123dvere.sk/files/file/31748558869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/lojimalokakudivadaseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tochalco.com/uploads/files/rimigejiramibanupevute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photopuzzle.net/userData/board/file/waxoxirofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gotogulowenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4c18c7a65c1f93e3121aa77b0bb8fbe/60207577831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/58850068225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indicaperu.com/userfiles/file/jagolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navrattan.co/userfiles/file/13809300862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=double+and+triple+digit+addition+with+regrouping+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000c230.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC230 11092 bytes
SHA-256: c476d5431010d29fcdce64d2f2ce4589f625cefde64cff7358eeaf42c501f110
font_01_sfnt_off0000db96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB96 17648 bytes
SHA-256: 1b051e98b825f45f294022b932e5febef2c472a656534d3f52432af613910113
font_02_sfnt_off000108db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1