Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa43f8c3efb53706…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 22:11:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e5dbccfb5f21d8c3d8bed85f905f9c20 SHA-1: 86bb41cf86480c7bd4c27f3ceb144ec34a742082 SHA-256: fa43f8c3efb537067d1213686df9b01666457d4b67ac998ba3a1ea262b54dfe9
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to trick users into downloading further malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://surtek.biz/image/files/20150319_045501.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://2safe4u.cz/UserFiles/File/65914307313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d1de8a1a19---kowogosafobudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/jewebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.vn/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/baxiwopodewujasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serrechevalier-skifun.com/imagesfile/tibexepofulavap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villacappuccina.com/userfiles/files/paberutugesavopame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charolais-hessen.de/write/userfiles/file/nesaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklamavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/bokisasosixekurixesuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmacfashion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tiwagezutudevide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuhua.tumujike.com/assets/upload/files/202109121625139299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ismart99.net/upload/files/kojaparemavanaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hosotte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60141765636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randygordonlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kaxima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giorgimpianti.com/userfiles/file/xinup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bretagne.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kixuwexofagafedorewaseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://targhevaticane.it/userfiles/files/mokonatuwenabixug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lavolifagazofakazajomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wm-meyer.de/meyer/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xijusewivagideteraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://career-id.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/banamajivamibugunasifuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petribax.nl/userfiles/file/76253146811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kebecelectrique.com/upload/editor/file/65771136821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hurghadalife.net/userfiles/files/kelitodolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=convert+mac+document+to+wordPDF 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_off0000be32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d649.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD649 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 87b03f3ff5699e167f8b78322a72698796949e2c6281f78858ebb74f49e07a78
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE44 16244 bytes
SHA-256: 1a39b7f2da84b5f155d34853705905e060a550ca4c070798b5bcc2d9a2cb3c43