Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 defba941c54f26e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 14:24:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: d9e1c0d0703ca0ea3b81498d26eef2d3 SHA-1: f6f7ef168983f721c4e2f6aca5c22d92be9843ef SHA-256: defba941c54f26e38aed27c0ecce6a8536825f0e9e6e8ed99ed90303d15631b4
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which are likely part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a strategy of using disposable hosting for a large number of links. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the link farm heuristic strongly suggest an intent to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=escurial+michel+de+ghelderode+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/44084785859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ccbdb24c0---27284580426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensegun2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8379662962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profm.hu/files/file/salobibowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maivietnamesecotati.com/uploads/files/91508655930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/jisuxoworiwanadip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/ruwago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/ketanezejefiwifugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/kejot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelgiottotorino.com/userfiles/files/pubatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/51120620098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/xewapepowanozewis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/1696707601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomofgodmn.org/userfiles/files/31426495040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/sonojipedeziwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/gavelabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jts-electrical.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62348806736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongphat.net/upload/files/dadowewebajesonuxuwuzejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2017.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/towuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geraldinekilkelly.ie/pofirelamifakevofavive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlugopis.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kavilararuban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delcinfo.ru/img/files/files/nixumumezarixudakaxaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winpoasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37713611233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fibertechnique.com/tmp/file/22428010641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thai-airpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67830369044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9d799e9c0dc92a3533717d79a5a81f5/xaboxe.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_off0000bca8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCA8 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 663ba407cefeeb8fedbf0e1ed53fdfc97bd7de76196863bc6d2a3893373f5283
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B5 17236 bytes
SHA-256: eafefe226f4ed79eaeea2dc925bff1d215c5aa36dc3affbbbc2394fbad8cc398
font_02_sfnt_off0001024f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1024F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1