Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12a1175252d9ad83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-10 12:08:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: abbf636e86f8e2ff65e00dd65421af65 SHA-1: 4c38a4da3a163a713291ac280bfb3144f1c3deae SHA-256: 12a1175252d9ad83c92a73bc924857305d31f75567908ad6979a96eafff11fb7
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of many obfuscated URLs suggests the document is intended to redirect users to download malicious content, likely a phishing lure or malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+vice+city+apk+download+mobile9 PDF link annotation
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e560e1d52---78421873186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traiteur-troyes-mariage-buffet-aube-10.blaisot-traiteur.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53044126365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bipigajoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowie.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/silobero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairbank-ia.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jidazamobawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/61728232828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanchariglobal.com/userfiles/file/narenuposom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyxedayhang.com/userfiles/files/32721988397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15881588.com/ckupload/files/ditowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uat-tunisia.com/userfiles/file/37114726220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uceng.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/79445250325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://londonjip.com/userData/board/file/83155250659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elvirajogsi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vakexudasekebizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fornacedelia.it/userfiles/files/selemuxuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agedwedfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/bubofano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovad-ltd.com/userfiles/file/pepadaduzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/88456370236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613034f60e624---74041200452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krantiservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46914117429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cqc-material.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/82218632172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanhebiotech.com/upload/files/3962669219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karinameal.com/imgdish/files/52500118561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehlibeytalimleri.com/resimler/files/sidixixugizakisederolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/41006935689.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_off0000d39d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD39D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB4 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 35b06f78372e6ad8d6bd4efc14c6fce3ce8684edb973ec9fb68f387177e44b30
font_02_sfnt_off00010582.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10582 21172 bytes
SHA-256: 5092b9afcb2d1885c48b4fc03eab884fb35c4ff4ade5858baa9e50988a012280