Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d79c5000dee3fae1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 06:26:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c8d5774022aec1b5026469cb763d93a0 SHA-1: f8e0695ae8794b3222f0ecca1e5a036492d7550d SHA-256: d79c5000dee3fae173dd18464794c650e16306b9b3a7f48cae77f700611329cd
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of numerous external URIs and a link farm structure, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic further supports the conclusion that this document is designed to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+app+cross+dj PDF link annotation
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/79005534330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/87245536605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uzks.hr/upload/datoteke/gexelotopufebozazej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0048.pl/48files/file/53736706555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/85434311414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/9111119211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatkireklamowe.pl/web/uploads/files/66949326552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.hssanesteban.cl/files/25141434840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doluhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gupotebewako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/24984213562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://storemisr.com/uploads/files/45486030681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sca-eagleegg5k.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/19456228500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shanghaicruiseparty.com/uploads/file/30870987835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strelnicebudejovice.cz/userfiles/file/vivegizugekugilubominewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grouptm2.com/contents/files/96973944751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seosanhrd.com/userfiles/file/dojatumiramugamorajisutul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/61906924292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-tos.com/userData/board/file/90816962442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c2631ab06695e57f707c67cbc2afc69/58270360687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--spreewaldpension-lbben-9lc.de/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/95440502344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8c4ba43d44788878badb742868040bc/34331684923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samnakthodrahassob.com/userfiles/file/nopebowevoxesof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplolux72.ru/upload/file/sakuxosofebexazawokexudaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog/file/47984112630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/2060586242.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_off0000bb57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB57 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 8e88ad795810a883766d8a34ebdb59d518ff55a1dc20bcb87395cd732fa9b295
font_01_sfnt_off0000d309.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD309 16392 bytes
SHA-256: fa1ebd78095ea3c2235c24ffc41fdf416672d18022bf80bac7ea2c68afc13001
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD18 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1