Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da983a9dcdb880b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 11:14:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7eb80b04b60611bb8f062054a9e2bf6f SHA-1: b18a3d36175a712bc6d166ec7965d60f1d092674 SHA-256: da983a9dcdb880b21055488eff7c413c2243b2c11fc586b7791cd22de99feea5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with a critical detection score. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The PDF's structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to obfuscate the malicious intent and lead users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://jiin-torng.com/uploadfiles/20210908181039.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fcab25e3b0---xujewon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iseveranscopy.com/upload/editor/file/80091375986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnjhanoi.com/upload/files/36321655101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immopolignano.lu/images/44768955445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51469779939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eca.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47842122813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/69616805333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biodent.ro/m4fm_files/m4news/ck-uploads-files/73879223402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afra24.com/basefile/afra24/files/nometumofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/ragovoxomivosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15449010.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_051269673D293BC6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxforce.nl/userfiles/files/vibazedabewogunefen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebiz.kr/userData/board/file/nixusekizodowaladoporawew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scantech3d.com/files/velasifubugekebeweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nvoond5i2odh4h27r2bcja5pc/9507926556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14024923996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoachtercamper.nl/userfiles/file/sitimowumopufuxizufafofaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/37142116238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunbot.com/upload/files/pedidarilobilasovusox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmvlpslimited.com/ci/userfiles/files/vivenulugox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borneneskontor-landsforening.dk/userfiles/file/33228338788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=techbigs+plants+vs+zombies+2PDF 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_off0000e886.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE886 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 32465a7eab893c20c867166581c5b8a05e11c3c326e29e921a6b31441db58f70
font_01_sfnt_off0001020c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1020C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A1E 20584 bytes
SHA-256: 3eedddf567a3983874fcfa91f055ce660f7c991696f6cf78a3723aecf2241350