Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc7c3fb5417b80e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:25:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e2e7fa4e020e942d5d5d7dfff59fa324 SHA-1: b0f37dc83370e6a2b36d6f1c867a97166607d52f SHA-256: dc7c3fb5417b80e46917ae2283bca362be829639fb15bfa0850c1001958a55bc
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous external URLs, with several pointing to disposable hosting and acting as a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+open+icloud+photos+on+android PDF link annotation
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/xuxomigisenozekapatewux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secureyun.cn/uploadfile/file///2021090621240754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0731.com/userfiles/file/20210912140944_15zzat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a966411a63---21946212439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fresh-cherries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dezatavuzagijerekatola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/lurisivakelupujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiunea-escape.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mebiwoporiladofewiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avistravel.ro/userfiles/file/33141055917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdsale.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wabirixipipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weishinclinic.com/uploads/files/202109031232388930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klubbelgickychobrov.sk/editor_uploads/files/55021393749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613f035bd641c---79168596837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pravkniga.ru/files/userfiles/files/54232023642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents/files/30579698979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corse.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/potoperoxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashokarefrigeration.com/userfiles/file/tokagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feriaalainversa.com/uploaded/files/25278481214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghebinhduong.com/media/ftp/file/vevij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/86418209646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaynhe.com/upload/files/58922375894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gurgy.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63969605632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerekagy.hu/UserFiles/file/95613748406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockpapersun.com/upload_mce_image/file/19732819338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfecturology.cafe24.com/upload/editor/imagefile/ramofimigu.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_off0000d983.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD983 17412 bytes
SHA-256: 79816dbb18cabf05543a7493025c85ee75710be5356b2e84f8f734a1c88c8ca4
font_01_sfnt_off00010661.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10661 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E78 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 54b2b9099aba78442950acf5ca9ecf44e5e4947cb27a5c7258f3032a7ec5c9d3