Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 005f81225ad329d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 15:26:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fff48b9f0913aedca130d633f067ecfa SHA-1: c9fd4687047fc6a70fb5479a861f7554bac11f92 SHA-256: 005f81225ad329d67cb80e5f906ce63a3c94e67d39ac65b9a1efa0e96acb506a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically highlights this behavior. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a malicious document intended to trick users into visiting compromised websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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 https://pakistanchristiancongress.org/userfiles/file/tasurubis.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.accl-calibration.com/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gadixelubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somersetcountybar.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/18262621245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shrlie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902220911304919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aantfcaehjbxzf1m.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/85690654829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenet.mn/userfiles/file/wurajizigab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomelieagency.com/userfiles/files/90106398270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoman.cz/data/file/63654161736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynxitservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88329570844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161407fd20bc11---jimevogimafavofolagesobiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0512.com/userfiles/file/20210904152031_l3wrtr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/47043095368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bio-scan.com/userfiles/file/vitopisevukora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24445872883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystar.net/filespath/files/20210916102955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linuxnewyork.com/draft/media/dazagipovakefikibopusumul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/sizira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/61395399142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/furir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/56489720929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.douggoodkin.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13462788505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bodosunuvifumet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technestudio.eu/userfiles/files/lugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/gekefuleluguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/kesigiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csn-alliance.com/data/files/70219976124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=instagram+app+hiderPDF 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_off0000b2a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cabc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCABC 10624 bytes
SHA-256: bfa1aa88f23967465e13de45d5b04fc33acc151c74312fed19bb207749be4340
font_02_sfnt_off0000e295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE295 14584 bytes
SHA-256: 996f7e58a282c9df15c7fc4f9f77b8e01d481d20bfbd6082577a962ac0d934ee