Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e198e105e73c27ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 22:26:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ce7c2c47ab747b7fd6076073b0ffc510 SHA-1: fa884d2cc61d65a2831ef35fcd88dd43ad9244ef SHA-256: e198e105e73c27ac0d458a82b9a12fff94e356d3af039649153cb6cce410ab31
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary lure seems to be related to downloading a game, as indicated by one of the extracted URLs containing 'how_to_download_gta_san_andreas_on_android_easy'. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and numerous links suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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 http://studiofapas.it/userfiles/files/pexeduwabinofedeninosi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sin-hua.org/userfiles/23103509471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flynewsletter.com/uploads/file/84233811483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://openendrep.com/userfiles/files/gofimuvupasobuzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/kuxawonidejapemewiwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///72088725029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/93905790433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basisnomor.com/contents/files/jakopurigifupewabowaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/61542735999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hertzlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tozofelaterixijilapubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobhendrix-law.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/72816467011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.com/Sites/cds/files/sunizavufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurvamartin.com/userfiles/file/33012259621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praxis-greve-polley.de/web/editor/files/xudoxorejemejabepejanubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatename.com/uploads/files/202109050221232004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303f5b0157b---lufawojisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-ostrava.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fevufutomitidigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handgun.ee/media/file/33511228997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divodizain.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zulamovokalubenadonoluxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataction.org/demo/dataction/media/51652631428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoon-source-harmonie.fr/public/file/tibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchunghadong.com/uploads/files/xesumigetixigozexesanuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/52218212634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lactopad.com/uploads/files/25801464373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bndweb.nl/upload/files/zolugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+gta+san+andreas+on+android+easyPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB126 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC938 14292 bytes
SHA-256: 9af6effbf21f5822f7f3e3ea6e5dd61bfd7fa733828d78bb12c014f5d125c7d4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAD 10616 bytes
SHA-256: a5b0bf82a3700d4a031dbf7ff1c21148ddd7b91b639051d3597b0de0a4b58534