Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b74543a69119f848…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-25 12:38:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9ea5f75efb3b7439d8ad0c6f90f6cecd SHA-1: 1eaa8a88da3cc40ca95ff754d122b2b2619ef722 SHA-256: b74543a69119f848066f6fbcfa1429daad5c5d25d6c5d023f445d243132e8294
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or content distribution network. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic further supports this, indicating a pattern of disposable hosting and a high number of distinct hosts. The presence of a QR code lure, though common, adds to the phishing-like characteristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://floridadressyourhome.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/29328568732.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lose-weight.tw/upload/files/44241201078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitecuador.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19099937913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkipt.com/_UploadEditor/files/29999672779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickendaylacrescenta.com/uploads/files/nofisopupomosopanitida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agmapure.com/upload/files/bigozuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psystems.gr/Administrator/uploads/userpics/OutPostImages/files/88549978341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autopsrus.aerovents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97818901510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielstrehlau.com/userfiles/file/74906645376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehpromyar.ru/media/file/83004321577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertexmedical.com/userfiles/files/datukezepakam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocatoandreabruschi.it/userfiles/files/dikixodinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/15719278850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3d8f7189c483869f04f53baf6b398f2/fumoruvovotafisulaperuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playoz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92750040757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylphs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juvulujogagezakexuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uclerbaklava.com/resources/file/84188824004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udruga-invalida.hr/files/86686976910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ags-car.com/upload/files/21164314807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aaptuk.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lojemesiwutigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibingvibes.com/userfiles/files/96314119584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spitalmoldovanoua.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuputezewonodopip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gojexewekoribowor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=muscles+not+sore+after+workoutPDF 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_off0000b22f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB22F 16732 bytes
SHA-256: 5c157538bc700c92c88c974bbd104c304299947fe70ada7d5228afc106c96a03
font_01_sfnt_off0000dce9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f500.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF500 10508 bytes
SHA-256: cd204e09eb764555d6cdc3095eab469cc00d5c97d9608a1245b237ad7fb5c57e