Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2f9db106b10c169…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 21:19:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 00b8523512e9a8c5adf64d0871772cc2 SHA-1: 53e7d8f32951bcdd1f565cdf090581f5052fe4e0 SHA-256: c2f9db106b10c1698976ae3522c9604cfe1c4fa0b1a3e37e85852a6a33914538
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm, suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://giritrademark.com/content_files/files/fopowixojawitasi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://synergyproperty.com/images/files/60282148848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cn/upload/zizafaganovafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/dafegitatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc85a9e4a0---kawabunasikizovijexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estoniapools.com/contents/files/muzuterimisipojive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojowat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcubepgiangtrinh.com/webroot/img/files/tukeposuzizarotadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/50993417442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/53161683462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoya.hr/UserFiles/file/26626255706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jysunshine-hotel.com/up_files/file/37889264763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/dotapetutepidugozifuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yamamatoen-wanwan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/veritutalazagojedevana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baracenter.be/userfiles/file/22276380651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/29751909735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galantemontagnana.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/povob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milkyway-vn.com/upload/files/54954017170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sekubuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pirare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avrig35.ro/uploads/fck_editor/file/gewex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivetripper.com/userfiles2020/files/6481918564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teater77.nl/userfiles/file/kadal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=create+wifi+hotspot+androidPDF 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_off0000c98b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC98B 10668 bytes
SHA-256: f4c08c0c01956566f51aa3417113531b15f9d532dfa3bcf8d53d096641b4075b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE208 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 87424f9911502e2b9fbf78f5cde6efb5364b6c235ae0757c7e12725d1bae2dc9
font_02_sfnt_off00010eed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1