Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9431d03c062106d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-22 09:30:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 392b8ea01b440ad9f3d406176291b10b SHA-1: d848a00fff310ef951bd99024c4d625486e00acd SHA-256: c9431d03c062106df5f3b453bdbdbe468f1f77e8706226602991c603c10b1b0d
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier. It contains multiple links to external PDFs hosted on various domains, with a high-confidence heuristic indicating a link farm on disposable hosting. One specific link points to 'https://superiorservicesandsolutionsfl.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/50267193501.pdf', which is likely the malicious payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://legend-chang.com/UserFiles/files/kakeperawunapesubuzuwej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://byty-pardubice.eu/UserFiles/File/8846196603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaneighbors.com/userimages/51551891803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncfc.com.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wedasokifasaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemnhapkhau.com/upload/files/vegikorivun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wickedcheesy.com/images/file/38004458936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngoinvest.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/beniwixuxizugerokalogoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59383339782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medizator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12806721321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31985193240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613020e23f5e2---sisepematonolubozix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-mobio.com/upload/files/32214515690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37461601098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/794ace33d93818eb53eda3991661c506/goxipupupupafenudefokofax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heart-calligraphy.com/uploads/files/202109120036313466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.com/contents/files/43731548434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superiorservicesandsolutionsfl.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/50267193501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/sufigotisasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmalayalamnews.com/userfiles/file/negukazugulapukixamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starcity-vinhomes.vn/app/webroot/img/files/72726299703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zentrumok.com/userfile/files/36380740112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+x+boot+modePDF 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_off0000cd74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD74 10280 bytes
SHA-256: a227e4568206e0514d92b882d6cb12c44f429b7ef10b89d124728d02e8e44462
font_01_sfnt_off0000e420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE420 16948 bytes
SHA-256: 466c424a793bcff4580b9fb35530795deaaf792177f8b46e4f0ea98a665dbb94
font_02_sfnt_off00010fa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1