Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce9a48bb14ec756d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-24 01:45:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a77fae28f6d255cb4d946278ceb19523 SHA-1: e056ee027acfd7c3896652dda98cec1aad7623d4 SHA-256: ce9a48bb14ec756d9d3b13c10dbba78604a07180a80bb6b428a213be4f3d5a2d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are structured as link farms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bloody+roar+2+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/penutejonawabuzikepode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/rapivetorofutage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94cda3cea2e60ed576b162c1dfbb6b0b/42570099472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fan-consultants.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93545467669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiendanatacion.com/noticias/files/vewanexizexubinadagurejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xlpe.net/Images_upload/files/90526190730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142f6088dc11---kevunaromimanavemajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinivideo.hu/sites/infinivideo/files/reromus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkingparts.com/Upfiles/file/73069915436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddnepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/lojosimomop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsace.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44189112420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguoigiupviec99.com/webroot/img/files/26082299521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaziemirkentkonseyi.com/upload/files/livusapexerosuribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pawsandtiaras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bowogadameke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahamianbrewery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27114811200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andreivieru.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85413667511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sharon-barron.com/userfiles/files/29426461727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/35330584512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/24414232421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biodez.lt/i/File/92143025740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturenhuman.com/app/webroot/userfiles/file/xapifojitotiviwazulanedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaiminhhanh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/50711806850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigaintan.com/contents/files/2204976917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d51d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD51D 10172 bytes
SHA-256: 4e9de8937aac07be6872d8dc0d23353b9528ecfef90ee5a9cc4798ea373b5053
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC0D 17884 bytes
SHA-256: f5f7e06b39329c9a991b1fd2513d25024bf0980c9dcd526b04d8a129d3108827
font_02_sfnt_off00011aa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1