Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1a1628423ed67b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 17:57:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ecd68107e3023c0e266df29c28aade8b SHA-1: 3face599be8412c1ed2a471e0bdc2e4827c886d6 SHA-256: d1a1628423ed67b78ceafaac90d6fd0f3fc0601175efe7d8d7ac69b135ee419c
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and the link farm heuristic suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to other malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5042

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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://optical-axis.com/uploads/files/202109071609334980.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://avvocato-callegaro.it/public/file/34681580491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/gojefavepokawewolowara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettodrabeni.it/userfiles/files/xafomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/99361006626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/98050388494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/mujilalupuronotuzonages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex.tj/img/file/46197006683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://y3stwk65l-mn9.com/contents/files/fisoraxujad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spa-salon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pivesadamelavivulep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161322f808dd96---14255731439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujieshubao.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021090511444573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/41118453076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6600398072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.vn/upload/files/11446475534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenithoverseas.com/assets/userfiles/files/mukejebejuxojunulavar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radyoislam.com/resimler/files/3743697777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qbcar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wozelevifazigepire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/94539460163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614372921148c---zimipulagido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lube-stc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89924822100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permagnet.com/upload_files/file/2109061551248322308x2ri5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poexali.org/static/image/_u/system/files/63774830049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41605091867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synfarm.com/upload/files/dolegugawegukosagazegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210919_120808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=algebra+completing+the+square+calculatorPDF link annotation
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d83d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD83D 17908 bytes
SHA-256: 8b2e29f8ecb4f27092db1c5c925ae0a06fb9339144486b40210625397d64073a