Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da28bc955952433b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-23 00:04:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 7c1891466021dc2dd64753de3b72280e SHA-1: 7b675e698fcf0f0e30bbc3d63a3373400351fa0d SHA-256: da28bc955952433b333870bfd62c2badf4df70dfcd0b8b607c244c63dc786b22
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially malicious domains, and one URL is identified as a link farm. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests the document is designed to redirect users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://togclick.com/media/userFckfiles/file/80766648133.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904004722449430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekreativecompany.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/69567146484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noriupapildu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22883253944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbjvweekof5d.xn--p1ai/files/files/wurugulalixigixafevuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardensyellowcab.com/admin/images/file/97202752605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e33170800eceeb99a35cf3f5cf51e3cf/41058557471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/deligaruzodibodamikibilur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinpointfeedtech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68857619163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharajohnscreek.com/sites/default/files/file/71361118424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moretonassets.net/userfiles/12093694065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanna-flyingclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tudipefibojunojarikina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windfreeklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/papanix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38266423309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogift-it.com/userfiles/files/futidoxaxasifilugit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibestedu.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/32007999422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5985418863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://language-coach.pl/uploads/files/bamadodivibot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a70728dc1095c26c87c72f264132cae/4797738177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caycanh.vn/images/fck/file/28742388115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.it/file/pejumenujiriruluxezixeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylowa-pss.pl/userfiles/file/kutesozubekajew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furnitura-syndicat.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/binenigujabawumuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pediatricpotentialsnj.com/PP/PPpng/files/87628096786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=mxq+pro+amlogic+s905+4k+tv+box+firmware+updatePDF 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_off0000da1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF235 12088 bytes
SHA-256: 1874ed6d89e949c73bce33f306ccf9de6e331b8a9b80970963e46f270181070b
font_02_sfnt_off00010ecf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ECF 18892 bytes
SHA-256: fff514f44d2f67753441a70d31d1b5fbb418f0c6c08749e31838a6b64d30498b