Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f17bc3f428c09683…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 22:07:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 52fe0c26fe24d2c98bc1990fe8712f02 SHA-1: c2211735661f6fe5936e2b649f8e21b49f68efe2 SHA-256: f17bc3f428c096838a693867259aec91eb1a6e5790ecfe1102b12336c27427a2
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, presenting numerous links to external PDF files, likely to deceive users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://joeun-it.com/userData/board/file/33474064685.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup1.com/contents/files/guxametabolonal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/fozilineteva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancunday.com/travela/img/files/xoperivijevinelitazobug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikanderajam.com/Robinson/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gakepopowakefeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbjarrahi.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/vaxupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jugoremadigidosujasafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134197c3d75f---tupupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swotaweb.com/img/upload/file/mepufobaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-trading-knotwork.com/uploads/media/84574124026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingmitrcoffee.com/user_img/files/zoregomitenopiwazakewiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aburobocon2019.mnb.mn/uploads/files/15036043595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gryfarmerskie.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/98348679551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/14863736050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/kezogizitumuzizaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-metalparts.com/d/files/90653139460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/49118782772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/55370347167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marta-galan.com/files/varios/file/93762322146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://favorit.pl/userfiles/file/kidinefuret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/gapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161305a498bdc3---65633713595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ylwlgwadmin.ylwl.cn/upload/files/74385174047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+convert+pdf+to+ppt+on+androidPDF 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_off0000e553.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE553 17484 bytes
SHA-256: 86c6ff1852a210403057f0bef43e3dd78ea9dd3e75b78dd948bd1a485dfb2cec
font_01_sfnt_off0001126f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1126F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A86 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 4a403aa3c8614d5c5168ab285896bc396572b9755a4d13be5583110975aec93a