Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9f4d6b6b181602f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 22:27:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0a632d9ecf2248e30039fba760f521a0 SHA-1: 8278a8cff3814caf71566d0d8f653e5103a5e154 SHA-256: d9f4d6b6b181602f5019218ee072ec0fc9073dd37227dd335204d9cca7554577
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The PDF contains a link farm on disposable hosting, with numerous links pointing to PDF files, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of external URIs and a high number of distinct hosts further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious intent to trick users into downloading potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 http://runwellconsulting.com/file/file/75831079664.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rakbah.healthybitespk.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kilidum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hocaukhudothithanhphogiaoluu.com/asset/site/files/dipatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plkorea77.com/ckupload/files/58907085028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/tiluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcbcharpentebois.com/ressource/site-image/files/vezino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xenangheli.vn/public/files/jipotosimanixaboregovomev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/45693027593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learnrkb.jugalbandiresearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57485085297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614112096b310---xotikuxunesogigevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/bofidefedipezotanavigotev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayjack.com/upload/files/nonukukonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/suwiwatukunobigajojelet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avatars.ru/userfiles/file/63188400986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaronandanthony.com/userfiles/files/88256303623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhongzing.com/uploads/files/202109170412543717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udaybharat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54946100663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsite.vn/uploads/files/nepegeneviju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e4ee3d6a1---92869243779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcucaytrong.com/images/files/82778688027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myshalewell.com/userfiles/file/74281184097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scsychem.com/upload/files/bagesagofuwuvika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/49757409800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/damamumeloderowoxipikijis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46431638506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents/files/tatowuduzijuvuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=warface+download+apkPDF 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_off0000b792.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB792 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFA4 15660 bytes
SHA-256: 370e16f923aff91de142eea4883000948dae6c21c009cd87428f6d687657c90e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF754 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 196b084e690f3004082b2f3a7316761050b429669972d82a1488e8482884d7df