Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de115820b56eebe9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:57:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 18bca0cedd47309e081bd6ce954c30cb SHA-1: eb23f54eb840b2fa2b565748524db50afbb65b1a SHA-256: de115820b56eebe9ca74cc32501fb6c61dde61ac731b8c24f5fdcdb79c5cf18d
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that redirect to various PDF files hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the ML/ClamAV detections indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+power+full+movie+download+1080p PDF link annotation
    • https://hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovagukaximiluvedamuwomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8444592700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/vafafezut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/59527359092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xzass.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dezamotixegab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/87883224168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spellenindex.nl/images/uploads/46162344747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cemeba.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/2785130325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngnjl.com/userfiles/files/kaxavumimomexavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315b3a2df2f---96044882302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62688835095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dovabuworiwibejuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents/files/jadomizuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avon-bratislava.com/files/files/zisozubun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordineveterinarivenezia.eu/userfiles/files/pirakiraxaruxugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2osv9pt2jfpt.com/uploadfiles/files/60812196141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnndt.com/Images_upload/files/sidajosadifebuletude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://institut-arabe.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fojamizubamenevidevisizab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballarioarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/wutuwefepinojisilona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2cmvuulj5n8ihirvpoljbpok7/nabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.es/d/files/kixurudotawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harringtonandlombardi.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/72235500169.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_off0000e102.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE102 17256 bytes
SHA-256: f0989486d922327f40817e7486fa2995abb3c30b80721074103d05f56f1bc304
font_01_sfnt_off00010dd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD4 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 0357d75aea1b1ba1d9c9d585103cccf5745f751f2b8852b0c63cfe4dbbced8f3
font_02_sfnt_off0001278b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1278B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1