Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9df890aab950d33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2021-10-01 19:57:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 6e828a6e93d61eb4d429dfdf428377cb SHA-1: 79b6976ff93bfc9b3db64d7f5bd1251e6c9555b6 SHA-256: c9df890aab950d33d65e9389199885de6a307cf70f5d7f17e0de7f8a64481079
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, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm directing users to numerous external PDF files. The presence of many unknown reputation URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://ttmm.co.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73502881251.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://psychologyforeverybody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52723418697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangshi-you.com/uploads/files/202109230225327213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/84467695940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/xadipazebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitroc.com/userfiles/file/55718207570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahmission.org/dataroom/file/39335055887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0173e888cc2736094ae8107250a936aa/gesufeloxijepagid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domario.ru/userfiles/file/80167337326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1632512818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.fr/php/rs/filesupload/file/21550512500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ftbkdcamitb5h.xn--p1acf/files/fck/file/kixozerumimisokipomabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrocom-spb.ru/userfiles/files/katerikibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsaimmigration.com/userfiles/file/sabofopukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adirondackseafood.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63318128963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/59159014885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/jikiweruwamabesofaxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161406a351f744---46146644988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.milestonesmn.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jewanexabuvotebejaten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11139119825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hideab.se/tc/Mediagalleri/file/zonem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bovimabarofevilefakukuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=live+wallpaper+one+piece+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_off0000acc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACC2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c4d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4D9 10348 bytes
SHA-256: d69cca8d32e406d85309d86b264ca99c6da1cad4646d5cfbcc7fa82ef231c0bf
font_02_sfnt_off0000dc4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC4E 14660 bytes
SHA-256: 763643cddf7fc6fc9121e5a162c7b156cf385e3c048f8538d9b32149febc930e