Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc6f33fc8d3c6d36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 12:00:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8d5e199374fed153583a37eef0e0b728 SHA-1: 9359a5ca9d3f1f456ed1a1563c01121543ac4437 SHA-256: dc6f33fc8d3c6d36ac80420c80d708eb1c477eaf554924852a1dac48680fd440
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The presence of a disposable link farm heuristic further supports this, indicating a potential attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/55361245867.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hoteldarim.ir/basefile/hoteldarimir/files/lixulateloparelafamer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmart-express.com/demo/uploadpic/file/16304035254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45667205783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaushalango.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/20741917220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mauchlineware.com/html/chapelstreet/web/userfiles/files/97213210622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namkhoabacninh.com/images/files/76349076020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://373113.linker.tw/files/24155488353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfsroanoke.com/home/tfs/public_html/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97295732281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khonggiansachhanoi.vn/uploads/files/kolixudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoaiduc.com/uploads/files/tuvirekawikajamadavugigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkalc.com/userfiles/motimamipalarezunokazowul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xindeshiye.com/uploadfile/file///2021090919122174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misr-consult.com/userfiles/file/juvopalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d3d520b5c4cb64ef541ecdef7eaa15f/jelavafamobulugide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161430a1232c91---gimusoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stainless-faucet.com/uploads/htmlupload/files/wabopuzolotokulitatofuwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowie.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/60664076979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/5920676951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iskoruma.com/upload/ckfinder/files/57094276573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abzesolar.com/uploads/files/24248073792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=gallery+app+for+mi+a3PDF 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_off0000d777.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD777 18648 bytes
SHA-256: 0383dcd2c7818e61a5b49beafc59dff441b16a56c6137a6f0b8ae15eae31c78a
font_01_sfnt_off0001083f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1083F 10476 bytes
SHA-256: ef863229ebed7ccfd95cc5eedf70adc18e35bc99efb2547432fb811ef336a8c3
font_02_sfnt_off00012015.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12015 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1