Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddca229444aa8693…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 12:08:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f20781920f727cc159574d7d33f5a51a SHA-1: 8928a911a306689ab77fa72bb19bc8304570760c SHA-256: ddca229444aa86932b4334e4b88946bad57c633769ad9aaf51a5c670c137245a
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to other PDF files, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=heavy+k+uyeke+mp3+download PDF link annotation
    • http://kingkady.com/uploadfile/files/82872236581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bandbaajabarat.com/ci/userfiles/files/kalewexexapedavofovidajat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alcantara.cz/data/file/gurojuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecirturizm.com/resimler/files/37397926513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mabo-meccanica.eu/userfiles/files/83106567418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhlytailieuluutru.com/media/ftp/file/mawaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/31756010911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laundrybyconrads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/tadufopokidarejupamuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hon5vhkbdei7c9qv78eskdb49v/jomebiwekasupem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vespaclubcagliari.com/userfiles/file/togizurodibewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtokit116.ru/!upload/files/natigixorevutuxirujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjengo.org/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/nuzogojifivamuleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ooexperience.be/assets/Image/files/pupelevova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/715b9b81b82bf6d90706371dd72935a3/gebapunuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/files/61444194817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notar-frings.de/userfiles/file/gaxuzidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faceconnects.com/ci/userfiles/files/jikogakubakuwusaxagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplo76.ru/uploads/file/sipizexonazeser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hflchw.com/upload/file/fafatilawetuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mustwalge.ee/data/content/files/vorirelesabebajepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brcassociati.com/userfiles/files/mosutovukorakolute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danies.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nipuboka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/sazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terhautz.com/upload_files/files/fazulexes.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_off0000b86d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB86D 19764 bytes
SHA-256: 24362f23bc2704af6c4bc069553f9c9f612b526a9c7b2d3e84b7ec28408acaf8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000104a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A1 10716 bytes
SHA-256: dbead99b742a68bef1047d8e4b94fb05ff89b6b83473f42d666f8cb043b1dff5