Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edf5e9fc0f6e24c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 15:27:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4d6ef93cff905f8bdcdce8f42409bacf SHA-1: e33648c316c135f21f8b2421d9ed50cae3b590b9 SHA-256: edf5e9fc0f6e24c95dbfe3e5f10b3e6a8b97ddaf801e2404cd21ca608f1d54d3
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and appear to be part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The document's structure and the presence of many external URIs suggest an attempt to lure victims to malicious websites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=minna+no+nihongo+2+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://toanlinh.vn/upload/files/ruger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161377788bc5b9---35845799801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogreenonline.net/userfiles/image/fckeditor/file/gemudazedifegavajeneko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/duwixidanokuxazibafekozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinyoungvalve.com/userData/board/file/nojajemagiluzukarugezat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fc0d5766e3---74927277163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozora.schaffsen.com/contents/file/dubejobemakanofigilub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sro52.ru/uploads/files/felukexamobasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvezda-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sivojizapedifilibomire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atrax.eu/userfiles/file/puwetozoziveki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halkum.rs/files/sogutulegebipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ge-mak.com/files/nuxadagitaziridavavokazav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dastone.ru/userfiles/file/ruleduja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.otevrenysklep.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wobokuwemevevimozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongthuyphatloc.com/luutru/files/84007363388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/38254640585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmleadmanagement.com/userfiles/files/mefibilam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/9291463264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/padonijegomovexusipurovin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jvlegacyhomerepairsmd.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/gelodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubk-sad.de/azubi/userfiles/files/kamevikaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dga.gr/ILC/img/file/53714756314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://german-ex.com/images/blog/file/75097178234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourbuilding.ru/userfiles/files/rijojuguromafilitonodavor.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000beac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEAC 21208 bytes
SHA-256: 7a07785ad09d3e374aa3b324a102d0609cde91c6294de98573f5852f78ec937f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f333.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF333 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B4A 10344 bytes
SHA-256: a87db6ab0ccef33eadce29153dd35b7dccc39e51a65df6914bc1a3901e92744d
font_03_sfnt_off00012253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12253 16132 bytes
SHA-256: 071bac7a3a90310621307d68123817e30fba7c89f9e5021c4391eb43bd8b9137