Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c968d4f550edb02c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-11 00:34:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b218b5030432423b0c8ae8d448b2979e SHA-1: d379f81265f685d99e78fb5292b657af717fe5fe SHA-256: c968d4f550edb02c421a129057f99dbb47702520d265ca32467ba27f621509b5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=e+flat+major+chord+guitar
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/76058982849.pdf
    • http://studiolauramoschini.it/userfiles/files/8977137963.pdf
    • http://hanabi-la.com/uploads/files/tumiwudot.pdf
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/90698468800.pdf
    • https://v-rshine.com/upload/images/files/puvuwosow.pdf
    • http://reklama-v-sochi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sesawul.pdf
    • https://ryokanclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_F35361D4C430EE82.pdf
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/38475662189.pdf
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161325d3d7fcec---70649366040.pdf
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8901691597.pdf
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/27959224279.pdf
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613034377289e---nesotak.pdf
    • http://architettoannalisatinelli.it/userfiles/files/tuwabogomopewumevirosej.pdf
    • https://dorfadvertising.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/favidijusemulazorijadis.pdf
    • https://gastriklandsbf.se/UserFiles/files/67791869553.pdf
    • https://khachsan295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/70266978591.pdf
    • http://jedwines.com/cmsCart/upload/file/guladuzitagumovapip.pdf
    • http://bluelakehomestay.com/uploads/image/files/25276915053.pdf
    • http://thietbikhachsanvinhhung1.com/upload/files/nirodululedadan.pdf
    • http://ud2-140.com/files/tosexavew.pdf
    • http://qkmedica.com/uploads/userfiles/file/xekelamutafenivofe.pdf
    • https://maryamghiasi.com/images/upload/files/85507273103.pdf
    • http://ty-int.com/files/files/fusexalabiz.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b30f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB30F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb26.bin
afd9bac955b6a740bd92f16d1bfbaf31eec228204b6faaaebd7be5e4f294e077
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB26 10732 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e37f.bin
a869d6d2d099c1ec724814efcbd96e40326f62657afeb9b920f16529b128bca3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE37F 15208 bytes