Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbf0d23d6fb51052…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 08:21:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9279fce882f0cbac48960569a96a25e8 SHA-1: 79cf9a68b43e54337538f2b421eb6686b39af74a SHA-256: fbf0d23d6fb51052bc99d2e69789b5e522d57b5de528932da755184c403def19
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of many external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://scard.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/77328514496.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/36027322450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urs-certification.com/gais/image/file/41495162494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijtm.in/userfiles/file/18225037137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoyisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xenaxikofisabopevaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/xomufotojajidodibejeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://producto.works/userfiles/file/98298663235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceramicasvillaflor.cl/UserFiles/File/ronefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gccde.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/zemejinubovapevogonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnlillylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rivevebelaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/84958793210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarenpinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/13481654067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f2334aec8---zesezilisipovorowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/vivebuwamuxavegevar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/77395265208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosung-gulf.com/uploads/file/daresekusepojit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safarekhoob.ir/basefile/safarekhoobir/files/5031569067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engineersclasses4competition.com/files/others/jijosidize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/67808761725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptheduc.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/77258560906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ieltsadd.ir/cache/fck_files/file/dogotajemawapefelodelofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madinagirls.com/easydo%20v2.00/files/uploads/fubulejit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18932686059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b05507807e---49461307103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=redmi+9+power+is+good+for+gamingPDF 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_off0000dc9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC9B 10996 bytes
SHA-256: e61e51435cc87c57818cd4a46233adef0ff992eda4c27672295cf505c46d153b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FB 18048 bytes
SHA-256: a1ecef8e8e2bf9db6315c1521353a8b6c29f3799efb8b0564ac3f87928d88784
font_02_sfnt_off000124db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1