Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b02f9cf6ea14fa79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 11:14:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0ed627f8f0c01d6944e693c0cc83423d SHA-1: 67f6528065fc64477994487a684ceda62375dca2 SHA-256: b02f9cf6ea14fa79d651cce8db051d5d7c8e98e4be386c86a94a4747aecf01b0
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for these links, further supporting a malicious intent to direct users to potentially harmful content.

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comprehensive+mathematics+textbook+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://abhrian.com/userfiles/files/50328112296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronocertif.com/userfiles/file/61255755768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queensparkview.com/image/upload/File/zoniduwogexex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webrobogo.hu/kepek/77841925233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/xutalej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geo-equipe.it/userfiles/files/tobaxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zugodefamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celesteandtorsten.wedding/images/file/5569050229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmresearch.org/userfiles/files/60340232517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayocazar.com/images/elfinder-1.1/files/file/93981835966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samudra99.com/contents/files/60488326713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://organicearthfiji.com/documents/file/19934317282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ha-sine.com/d/files/46648853321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/patilupefes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamicyunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47864890339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/gugulopilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebal.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/gidasarebifezag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73546839302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136248b9e7ae---fupinagubufurujofibemega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datacomsystems.cz/userfiles/file/fizupikulevixev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/25205333849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriabosini.net/userfiles/files/39593347672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/mokapefasumej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/sakamekonefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moyaexpresss.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/begigoxajowadutubuvis.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_off0000eb78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB78 11268 bytes
SHA-256: f43d29ee2b27349e28997012897e51622cad19d668c6b8a7c8f047bc8e8642ef
font_01_sfnt_off00010591.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10591 17220 bytes
SHA-256: cde86aca2a4142b557f128838ec5fb09e41bb989ac6a8fa904f9e194e649d118
font_02_sfnt_off0001325c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1325C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1