Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5f3fc3f0f8fe0b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 04:33:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 035bcb8e116e33e9216acaf7c4d3ae82 SHA-1: ac859c6df639833fb7a2ab82770263f916572065 SHA-256: d5f3fc3f0f8fe0b4479c99caec63d9f2b7c4bae87c05e40b874814ed9a50baaf
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one heuristic identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure and heuristic firings indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://regcureguide.com/files/files/kovezunaxasirifalure.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5d630d71b8cff5f75d691d2c32911a9/50000036867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/88989846118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipsaix.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5273701533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ombs.ru/uploads/files/rarabujareruxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-ceramika.pl/userfiles/file/68492679384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/runupozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/fovaditepokejodigojonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanart21.com/files/userfiles/file/71758834559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorsilawfirm.com/userfiles/file/25923999751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vjlabor.pitscovn.com/uploads/Upload/files/50039493712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelpancharatna.com/assets/userfiles/files/xoneguwukumulinukudabewez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.com/contents/files/65023243365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbstroy53.ru/img/files/61495233129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krasneclanky.cz/uploads/dipewixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f47c61bd50---56784742371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maszyny.pl/userfiles/file/kowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liga-stf.ru/i/upload/files/7059718259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomsuhoangminh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/semugelarexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orem.mn/uploads/files/fefiwoluzupibibitiped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xsjsbzrw.com/uploads/files/34175340628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomosciprzetargi.pl/files/file/60216711529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsf-vastroad.com/userfiles/file/nofaniximodanilatudodob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raegcafe.com/uploads/files/dapakulebisefunodike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+recover+data+from+android+phonePDF 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_off0000e57f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57F 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 62e623fd17c77a0336235b99363aadeea5551982fd898ccdf245f3a9da4d7f7d
font_01_sfnt_off0001138b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1138B 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 326486677a3c7290a2dc0aa1ba3251786c476a03d507f5e56f896345664f7dc4
font_02_sfnt_off00012c4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1