Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f52cff59a9295de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:22:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 700de5cccd1912b8c6dcc36ed73c3d01 SHA-1: d2b6a129b50f39ec499698c1c395f565216541f1 SHA-256: 0f52cff59a9295de424dd5423a2d29b20bfc1e729abaa148757dd1aa629d3986
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to suspicious domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags the sample for using disposable hosting and redirectors, reinforcing the phishing or malware distribution vector. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://shivajigrihnirman.com/singhania/downloads/file/rumotebesa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/13100390635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hcmkh9db2e4s7tbhj1voai91db/puxetekoweruzada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobateracota.ro/mm/file/54075315012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngaa.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67690198344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predia.cz/userfiles/file/53005548169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staractivecollection.com/resimler/site/files/61681668962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137cb4264ded---tifepifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fyna.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73636703969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sebapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/68662192657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabinetpro.gabinetpro.pl/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/wadelebilevema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kapefashion.com/files/files/57581794136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kawoka.com/userfiles/file/xavimesisifulujofuxegore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intelekt.biz/uploads/pages/files/dufabatowoxudiwinilozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/kidafitubejogeveporet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/75527253934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneaselina.ro/userfiles/file/5459143644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptichile.cl/userfiles/file/nokebabimaremarotewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti-kuhni.ru/upload/files/27223166821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turbooto.vn/upload/files/92720438972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vegagastro.pl/upload/file/88621377974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plnjl.com/userfiles/files/sufevesorugawomozowababas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at1-turbo-j3t.com/contents/files/tulafigakerotiropasidokon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=wavelength+frequency+and+energy+of+visible+lightPDF 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_off0000c13a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC13A 11316 bytes
SHA-256: 32d88ff01099ccd0fe3a138f87d0178d540ca4efbb31c5f3330247b63cf2064a
font_01_sfnt_off0000db43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB43 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 84f4d42d595a45298591713623fa2737f6d4dafbc2cc8acb93e9139ace7d8a35
font_02_sfnt_off00010856.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10856 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1