Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbd3f4142ae9f84f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 16:10:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 347670d21ef5c724da7af6caa9f7156a SHA-1: 2987b67a9b11ac778425ddf7fa6a63d3e90c5f70 SHA-256: fbd3f4142ae9f84f7f2a52bbf4ba2b49a4a19a925869576eb2a5f8de7ef81cd6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on domains that appear to be part of a link farm. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the PDF and its embedded links strongly suggests it is used as a lure to direct users to malicious content.

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 http://gameometria.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/32873474538.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/44554763931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rintrans.com/files/wexuvasobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xabaxuketakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/pirakefamax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/432546158613c5c9a30509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ver9ctrl.sonikgps.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibarugi.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/mopomokobipojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronikarp.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10040817932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itineraire-consulting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95476935298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3wsystems.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/40044617861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/20458082753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614046219d356---98371445080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/pabibukutudirivuwazib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemiigori.com/uploads/file/voseganexewetulib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/76089019298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/kuwosegixijusurata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/pamiletotitosidena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubelessons.net/cms_images/file/8015840275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/givaberosowewezowifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausbaumesse.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zemapububetujifetapejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/sasajanito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142fbe7eb16a---88847174068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoongnau.com/upload/files/jizipotubavudadodebebin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=local+seo+keywordsPDF 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_off0000ed10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10527 10320 bytes
SHA-256: f2453c53d44755ee546e2e5d377a914657f5d7bd684d3096b4ca5a3cc77d5190
font_02_sfnt_off00011ca5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA5 18728 bytes
SHA-256: d312ea0070a9221d18afdd5c1d1e41692f52dff91c013f5a364461463a7384f1