Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e426b36275e18fc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-14 12:01:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c87914d53bc36b6bab83244bfe5a2272 SHA-1: 8a1d83a2da8eb79890b930b2c3a7e7377dc50ff9 SHA-256: e426b36275e18fc827b55523101576447b82c5859102f6cc0f80d8563320df40
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 part of a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and the link farm heuristic indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+excel+converter+online+free+download+without+email PDF link annotation
    • https://trystsalonri.com/images/file/23382980479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/regoguvivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirche-treuen.de/UserFiles/File/73597141501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nujhimachal.in/img/uploads/files/86877166588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/22747202165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f38583494---parasejonetove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/68759861270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeline-sports.com/files/file/mafamaguxigaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domingo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96782919859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/mizuliwumesiwezolegul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolshunoff.ru/images/wysiwyg/file/rupivativowake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalcoopadvisors.com/userfiles/files/punekoderuxosojako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venefoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46626405170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/vatozumoreko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphalexander.com/uploads/files/24903325885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brs.jo/userfiles/files/wuligikixodonivop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariacomportamentale.it/userfiles/files/97925011999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shoreluxurylimos.com/userfiles/files/65071123051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lucaslobker.com/minor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74133049332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hud101.vn/webroot/img/posts/files/54985591532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkycc4.com/kycc4.com/userfiles/files/36942538010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienhoanghean.com/upload/ck/files/mijanexesipiluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarvvv.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/loraxabixoral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidzcastleschool.com/singhania/downloads/file/gozasaxuwenipiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamennykoberec.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/budowabit.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_off0000c2bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2BD 17344 bytes
SHA-256: a4cca09b97cfa86cafd86b263b20a737c1f1107f09ad6b3c68b37901e457b4a1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10772 10928 bytes
SHA-256: fa8473e825d1d11607805f612054b9e171eefb527577e7557e91664addada414