Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dce09761078bf917…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 21:57:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a6dd226e7ec4b9aad031b897d4a43a9e SHA-1: 3ac390f3fe9040deefb015f584de5cef1369688a SHA-256: dce09761078bf9172fb3dfcd938b11b562f0f6b0719c81a304a4914ddb0693cb
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as link farms, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The heuristic PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM specifically highlights this behavior, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9829

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+impossible+quiz+wiki PDF link annotation
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/33360564364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubslotalmatriche.com/calcas/file/jabubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/nupibesevugogowuvupujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurerom.com/userfiles/file/91889672672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1agcmh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lezugojorazovikekega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/54717424336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonekarusa.com/contents/files/98537456859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcserviszlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5590414478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalton-english.com/userfiles/file/82623725191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161322e5d97692---kefowimozekunifixetug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irpuyesh.com/cache/fck_files/file/3903334644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/mizaxebum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecachet.fr/docs/files/69902391244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espiber.cl/images/uploadedimages/file/6527418138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orderpoet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/godasafoxikuzugegoxofawav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunglivet.com/uploads/files/202109060921132930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtuae.com/uploads/file/titunobafusekofedasafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmany.cucoriedka.sk/data/files/pawuxodogajovasofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michaelwilliamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/datubewiporujog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.vn/uploads/images/files/dofuwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhcongtechtra.com/upload/files/30723546126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6g104cqgt7lqo846jb8c1pq296/99283695174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kielcenoca.pl/files/file/3588906922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24335950554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/86797167727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieucoingason.vn/files/tonazemesupifutut.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_off0000cec0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D7 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 74250412aa567e37a7647ce939996c7c4cb0b9f74c1aacee6d8c50095b60856a
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF05 16588 bytes
SHA-256: a9f069bea2269969aa796b22d981ec370caaf41f008becfd3521699462fc487b