Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3ec987436022eab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 17:47:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0d98b2e0b2928e97c929d25d2d4b0a82 SHA-1: 28c61828d76b05f60be99945a24ed7c72db2003b SHA-256: d3ec987436022eabd4f684c1dc82e6fa622e195bc480fbd2f35d6ac2d5e5bcf5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly indicates the document's purpose is to host a large number of links on disposable domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3d+game+development+with+unity3d+in+2021 PDF link annotation
    • http://bacvietexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/23039318490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b40555.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/76741419102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azco.friend-match.com/upload/files/92998204914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntvietnga.com/upload/files/69299025219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmtours.si/uploads/541087281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalcircle.club/userfiles/file/44906155196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mp2020.csysadmin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69363154605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternaseguros.net/files/files/41576207078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerateacademy.com/file/12924817705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premo.at/userfiles/file/zesefuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/zopilosozaduweze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/webibepagopul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noriupapildu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mikoxalutux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itagqatar.zajeltel.com/itag/file/files/36098043235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a7f86bde8---41383361846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfk-dekoration.dk/images/uploadedimages/file/volaxunoseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianapit.thriftstorewebsites.net/flash/indianapit.thriftstorewebsites.net/file/28979937636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/49561162750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushrutproctology.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84764268880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieucoingason.vn/files/safopubobiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makenie.com/upload/files/19195980943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jualumnitoronto.com/editor/uploadfiles/74851807096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99197656821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304f942bdd7---19186466050.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_off0000c466.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC466 16848 bytes
SHA-256: 0017e6ea87b73ee97cca5b2c349a49fb12eea22b183237cf45ebcb6b92c439a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f02b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010842.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10842 11308 bytes
SHA-256: d18a6b27eae856f8f5a5caf10eae897cb596365fae6c61c71f85cd5d4dd402c6