Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cceade625a54df17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-24 15:25:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1505daa052a2de555c2bb2f3c499aac0 SHA-1: 5043d09499553411d613840f379b819b02107990 SHA-256: cceade625a54df174619c03af87d81f783cdd4d08e66502fb29d1cf5916831c7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests a spam or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.ez4parcel.net/upfile/files/2021/09/24/karezekukopoxewojem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.plan.msu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexuwegavifoxafaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinyardim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/5576417117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/45508387337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiantalentjunction.com/milan/media/10015982527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/82907555205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winkeleninzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/37831558025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ca03977a0e---88262549190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/8924514008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/20770200412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613775784ff4f---91988161562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassagemodel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zeduwekilerixinisemujov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapharmata.hu/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/14478382989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosvilar.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/47757621994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/baxofetifijakonipeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo-catamarans.de/res/wysiwyg/file/276147206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunway.me/uploads/file/161810334212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmrcstvm.com/userfiles/file/juvapevigavimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afurg.com.br/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26239924677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/80118620738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishiodua.com/contents/files/tudibajar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbbo.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/wamidutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kampusogrenciyurdu.com/file/23896240951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalmi.ru/upfiles/files/31285179125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=2+letter+words+ending+in+vPDF 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_off0000b4f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD05 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 28382bb8389d683b90864399cd23ae71495a1dfa18af6b91ccae40533439bfa2
font_02_sfnt_off0000faa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA3 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 559788e423fa59f74123b55daec74f04157e57d45793b3a79b86d710d8bce267