Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c96cde19a9af09f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 15:33:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9158ee0a5f3b32ddf385f109e721821a SHA-1: ae60df1c682365b07a5b51be08644efc301a10f6 SHA-256: c96cde19a9af09f0ece7a7ec688ebc8f473f3dc46b7ec5070fb144c46eadfc3f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious PDF files on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating the PDF is designed to host many links on disposable domains. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://www.w.radeton.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gafojurisaveg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec63f8e635---jojamamepasasodurar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landroverbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74323983775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-premium.com/user_file/files/zotewusitugojuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orderpoet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36363621557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://support-cmu.com/filedata/file/lepinod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frisch.ro/files/file/wupowujakesevawulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianina.de/upload/file/25180492249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/20725029646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mofrantech.com/userfiles/file/21614461011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/15437901014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weilaimachinery.com/userfiles/files/32364340739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/zarubaruwixuvibavuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161302e9e11454---zopuvagino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jesssmithtri.com/jesssmith/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goxajepixuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/kesujurofukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photojet.bg/userfiles/file/moberagotaliwemajixibijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/43431314293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuoredicane.it/userfiles/files/35340297406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optikametuje.cz/userfiles/file/voxaxivop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/jarupovegijoturefife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marikakozmetika.hu/editor_up/wototodupobawogalipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///gibufezegivad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aordonez.com/images/contenidos/files/defami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upbilbao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51014966316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/denoxozedivamokuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gordostcrista.ru/userfiles/file/79317805530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=jericho+season+3+pdfPDF 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_off0000c43d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC43D 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 95ba950cd966a88d2c93e41e0190572ccfeae5eea03a057cdd34c3ab6a3a7e93
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E6 10736 bytes
SHA-256: bfc56d83e34d479d8787bc74732d51f4ddbfa3d84c63333d0311de038cf55fdf