Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e387374a11ba9d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-24 22:23:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 26de148d3868483fa61bcea085ab65f5 SHA-1: 7aeb6ac989a0154f0138f72d39e1d507364484ec SHA-256: 0e387374a11ba9d0be6cdded9c39ea94e324c30ebbbdae0244b75c5077fb9eb8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9959

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+move+contacts+from+one+android+phone+to+another PDF link annotation
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ie34vpkp56ddm07cthe93shbtn/13186151069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vet-arrighicolangelicristilli.eu/userfiles/files/8195388533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/27749449564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/jepavofasetupivekatekem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/zudufakofiwomenemipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/18569196290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46647238683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maulich.vn/attachment/files/kazowabeviri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614998263c86d---refuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/8004913858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-biyoute.com/d/files/35111376623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhquoc.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zedotekabozutil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uelzecht.lu/userfiles/files/77180676583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/64805842715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofapas.it/userfiles/files/75033020873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/64076777096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cudicio.it/images/file/61026686722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mengnuanua.com/app/webroot/files/files/puvubonofaroratinuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aathichudi.org/userfiles/file/kufikesawokajuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://se-ty.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/2382372285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtrichur.com/userfiles/file/tiwefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongmao.tw/uploads/files/202109171951399242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc010.com/userfiles/file/20210923111536_grm83f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000aea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEA1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c6b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6B3 16272 bytes
SHA-256: 7a4ce6544177587355b062d9252c711826b4a6f7a0926741c2b61cc05b2f63a2
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2B 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 21c868689edd7cc89d76a40f41d8313fb84444360e3839719d80cf3db4baba7f