Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af3768ac133d39a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-22 13:02:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cd5b36bf968c576d10d220d9fb159852 SHA-1: be710be0c387234cdb60e329b129a3d1d88e836b SHA-256: af3768ac133d39a07f56c2e83cf534c4aa2d807ffa24039f42c3545ed9547920
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file 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 and are structured as a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b2a7b5f066f31ec427f44e6e3707ee9/juxigefukod.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tano-cable.com/d/files/patexegiditexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landi-bg.com/images/file/fusosewonavexasozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/lijafufutiluvaruxaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamwith.gni.kr/ckupload/files/81881589170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311dbf6ed78---62128630230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipea.kr/userData/board/file/69740985375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog/file/67489753681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soenen-pneus.com/upload/file/zozalufagufajupuzigupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benedictinoselrosal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6681127371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/lunabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents/files/gefitalon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spvi.cn/filespath/files/20210906203114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobateracota.ro/mm/file/33393244442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18540784368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20020466913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingbakerypans.com/userfiles/file/72796384666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-16/20210916103707669053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maychieuvinh.vn/upload/files/wediwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/50592411092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dzerzhinskij.ru/upload_picture/file/21214909689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddnepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/govejemabevidisukalomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsreloading.com/userfiles/files/kumajisadijexid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhilegia.com/upload/files/96739085125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsst77.ru/upload/files/rewufafifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piazzademarini3ge.com/userfiles/files/31698327522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=xiaomi+mi+9+antutu+scorePDF 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_off0000e88c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE88C 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 624aa7783f6da75067710659560430064e53e87466ce4f15cc65406e1dff990b
font_01_sfnt_off000100e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E3 20076 bytes
SHA-256: 8b245e739efef2805d4649a0af5372f0066af70d487326e74863e55375be6b86
font_02_sfnt_off00013586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13586 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1