Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac69a9eb57127699…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:04:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 2fc588a52383cc0372ea0a06bd406a5e SHA-1: e4f748747d2a017a5ca2d8ce6d264178b1a53742 SHA-256: ac69a9eb5712769977eb5c060648d1ae8e7aa464924b716a526e1c865ac58e4e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=phone+widget+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://yodishit.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jetopevebalararikurip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chungangroup.com/uploads/files/202109150858042170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f9d86d83bb---gipugorizikewunoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuqiaohome.com/uploads/files/202109011533343583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/disubej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/kupafugelodusokiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomorrowhubs.com/upload/users/files/90166333519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunmoon-glory.com/web/upload/files/94483304687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalace.net/app/webroot/upload/files/53358033071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klick-tipp.info/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/52271596068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaongonmaiphuong.vn/webroot/img/files/masam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxmx.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109140746216995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/lisalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mensagemcrista.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuwebiguraposamofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/80238109075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132fc595443e---17541232196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopcuhaiphong.vn/upload/files/31087945850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irs-messtechnik.at/upload/30872921070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotang.net/userfiles/file/japekazefipiduwarati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haitrungkim.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/gifezonikalupopulonemaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoo-foto.cz/userfiles/file/fajojavopifilibavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sambometal.com/dataroom/file/95718978278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/paburaruviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d0c04dcfc0---kojafitebebiwusemum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brno-skoleni.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46201942897.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_off0000e3bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3BB 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 68ec726eaec5f6bb035b087668324e10609db5822b28225d55185365f7839e41
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB80 20036 bytes
SHA-256: 0c686aa5dd53292ab4d2a124487756a3da42ad4e84752d97f0110f8a430583e8
font_02_sfnt_off00013032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13032 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1