Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c20f9c5cc216c31c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 13:47:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 718f07fe99e386c2032c529f07254c57 SHA-1: d12d08242840e1a223232b3f0445eaabe29eaa8b SHA-256: c20f9c5cc216c31cb24c7fac7459a9a6268877958ce03f3b4246d556e3dae464
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, characteristic of link farms used to obscure malicious destinations. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to distribute content via numerous small, potentially compromised or disposable websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://asqcert.net/files/files/79259791746.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://harringtonandlombardi.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/7527541407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baruraprotidin.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/86939705449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85706497719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yujinpharma.com/upload/files/kosalelosinuzuxajegegefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/95479647252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotacjedlaoze.pl/userfiles/file/xodegoroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjeverspeed.com/userfiles/file/kinuzunubiminepex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/vezekafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/daratelofosezabelasuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tunguoilon.tunhua.vn/ipp/images/uploads/files/78093768664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b471abad71a0536dc59787cb502b9be1/11138556612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/18455496321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greddy.com/admin/common/ckfinder/userfiles/File/39927454175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.travelenvogue.com/userfiles/files/ganudobezapevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinabomi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/gozek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.americaninvest.net/upls/files/10034301151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzlerranch.com/userimages/16900523607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babijie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-13/20210913030909967886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkwwta.org/userfiles/potizifubijilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhhuubinh.com/upload/files/zovojogaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giayviettri.com/img-ftec/files/71721063865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungquanghieu.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/sirit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtrichur.com/userfiles/file/fikerujaxusaduxepesapojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodugnani.it/userfiles/files/23360876711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=words+to+describe+someone+that+start+with+gPDF 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_off0000b150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB150 15120 bytes
SHA-256: 3c0bcdd525606900653ea92d7217458502112142667ec77e49dfbee3ee24b65e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000efed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFED 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 12285d2c7c89e092ba2abec841e73c7280848457e6c103cf5de69396c7acd6db