Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e68af9a958f4380e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-10-05 08:27:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: f2187a0192943d77e2f2fe1675391a7c SHA-1: adf9d083926e8eb8462d33eb7caec3666950bf1d SHA-256: e68af9a958f4380e6385885052f06209a47d6a4cd56cd679771a2f2bddb5419c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are structured to appear as file downloads. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of links on disposable hosting, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=none+of+the+wiser PDF link annotation
    • http://etoprosto.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zevow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betamachinery.sa/other_files/File/mosupomejetupiragitup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasmijnbloemengroen.nl/userfiles/file/wupazezer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijtm.in/userfiles/file/nedapapafapakepuvomupifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galerie45.com/userfiles/file/82095456715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hardiebase.com/uploads/assets/filefile/doxexokidojagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncunse.com/d/files/71322089551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kht.civilkozpont.hu/uploads/file/98387195292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zxpgw.com/userfiles/file/jesematabafowabajavaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taptigrihnirman.com/singhania/downloads/file/jifaguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porfic.com/fotos/file/87249073947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handinhand-daycare.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bafanepufosufakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/45070165147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandirent-new.ru/uploads/assets/file/xobonojojarikisupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff942aa6fa---62957189738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolecasetta.it/userfiles/files/37200152984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/55150934208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolonauticofavignana.it/userfiles/files/226435099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruitssupplier.com/app/webroot/img/files/17457101070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed3909e8c2---61139976749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glamweddingdesign.com/userfiles/file/93647779001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31230844934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/852195624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orem.mn/uploads/files/37297647531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5thaveseniors.org/userfiles/file/15582058494.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_off0000df38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f74f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF74F 10164 bytes
SHA-256: da17295580cff52b2228603597a687943456c6c2a54c8bf975efcbc4796d804f
font_02_sfnt_off00010e18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E18 18428 bytes
SHA-256: 07e1eee1913069733a16444d12cb1b8e0f1542a3f6ecc673c8350efb2040d86a