Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d26e36896a1c356f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 07:30:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b838aa3d2de45e6b9187a536040336b5 SHA-1: 63b874a6c75cb4bc58eaa9bbdab425ddb552bdbd SHA-256: d26e36896a1c356f28771f508f874feb2b5cd9750e12cbf97b6790249c7a664a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document contains numerous links to disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious websites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the ML/ClamAV detections point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://zapret-rf.org/web/img/podborky/files/tivawiwowupoweguje.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nurea.se/currency/userfiles/file/35393935712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmarcofaedi.com/userfiles/files/jisiderexuremoriwefudejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domadoma.cz/userfiles/file/74852083272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/userfiles/file/76554820767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosonnguyenthanh.vn/webroot/userfiles/files/zufos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/55473572792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/5362835263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qcrdc7uvbnj1c1vpeue0l8c2rm/43767853769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/90726422361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bbd31ebf17---7501180429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ge-mak.com/files/vobisoxotozugam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmottaviproductive.it/uploads/file/43465506705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nergizleryapi.com/image/files/bovenetabidorilurow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/jevukonubibizosegus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/kukedotizigabisidesarur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cermak-expo.cz/data/files/file/rimijedarapejof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinyudachem.com/upload/files/nipagarevewagakeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zbmbudomont.pl/userfiles/file/98089442287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/mebodibapanogozisolubede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knoxvilleremembers.com/media/98255127683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/muvitasimuvom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bananamusic.tw/uploads/files/202109050050521909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=best+weather+app+2021+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_off0000bc59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC59 15952 bytes
SHA-256: 49035e3b00101f31fc4c995741779d685b18e0b41c9380d6b61b2f40e0a52d10
font_01_sfnt_off0000e537.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE537 10876 bytes
SHA-256: afd9b665f6488b7ecad5119b8057f0e2230918f84377c699ea46667a1ee20f89
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1