Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ea3c43484e568ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:07:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fcdd650cbe6085b90bd23c176dd99687 SHA-1: 2c059d2a37f57ecb4ee47b925cbe2d4bc8da7b99 SHA-256: 0ea3c43484e568ac491fc3593b4054b9e21c8b667efcd7fbf141520db5899e36
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and includes a heuristic for a 'download button' lure. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM firings suggests the document is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vidmate+app+fast+download+vidmate+apk+for+android+free PDF link annotation
    • https://kit-veron.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/balupuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntouioc.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vimuseviguraxilam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cpnatacao.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59761469321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharkovinkom.com/sharkovinkom.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gemegirififonopod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckeditor.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58988888269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamtamphat.com/upload/files/wusiwefejenetab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cx-gl.hu/images/files/25912596284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowadhr.com/app/webroot/upload/files/tadidowibepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crestviewshopping.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/detevutululenewowixoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c071b3965---nutuvejorewunuwito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cattaneoarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/sekatisuwemija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://global-product.org/CKEdit/upload/files/93685787094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukdae.com/files/fckeditor/file/53698194741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bastola.org/userfiles/file/97794658198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabletopad.com/images/file/75248801389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaroma.fr/upload/file/kanikesav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33db832bcc6ebf8158c4d7e151cc6b9e/90210623634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkconstruction.com/Images/Media/files/noderunel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whatshoulditcostme.com/userfiles/file/2706779431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/70776793368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denge.aero/upload/files/lopokeninil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelkenaghshband.com/app/webroot/img/files/bekalasikejuk.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_off0000dc0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC0E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f425.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF425 10872 bytes
SHA-256: f9045e0c091a32a5621c456e8321ef1d0928fac3bdfdc39c207adc5d95f08abd
font_02_sfnt_off00010d4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D4D 17100 bytes
SHA-256: bd5853f7c49781822d9a47fb175f6b886c9be2fc56069303d3e269f487d11b81