Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd21cc105c390472…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-25 14:55:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6b10ef4e9f5b669983711f011a47b04b SHA-1: a4e8cf8bb44bb0b36f20ee1cb567f6849a7e567f SHA-256: fd21cc105c39047268d8a71c5466cc1c63d718b1908d2249d18a3c86b6179201
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on various domains. This suggests a multi-stage attack where the initial PDF serves as a lure to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://toyotacri.com/userfiles/files/witive.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vsevolozhsk.mebel18.com/uploads/files/jidurabuzopelewuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrofotr.cz/files/file/gegawesebuvisobip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pet.nfe.go.th/m_site/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76015297716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-18/20210918023704208708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zagi.hr/files/fupavokifuminiwazopolawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/42321811387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339a0a00f5d---kejalubilazedokilin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjxbw.cn/userfiles/file/pevod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/78555328501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masihpt2.com/contents/files/pademupapaxenuriwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svx.su/ffile/file/57322924098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbfab2821873134538325c956e25897f/57473160661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sourceit.ke/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/48528661577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kottayammedicalcollege.org/CMS/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tajitusuwoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnwealthy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60770587257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/tidofadigikoxixerarav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergakiland.ru/files/files/xiduse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/60953686131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.poolsrus.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82808174459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-life.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2069755495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/womuzutawawukume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humansharehouse.com/userData/board/file/balewefiziruravugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=calculator+lock+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000b26a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB26A 19084 bytes
SHA-256: 1b258da76b170ca65a9fd8ba3a54ff7c2bfd339d351a4e8ae0288dceca53e2d8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e355.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE355 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB6C 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 50cc5e9a72dfddc1c29d28efded9e81b05880f34788cd0f50e7d6cdbf47e8282