Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15387a3b3b05d7c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 18:11:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6c07bbd67d787a80e80c92e6cb49400e SHA-1: dec4c10bb04127fdbee9fa634746231d9d67b0bf SHA-256: 15387a3b3b05d7c55005fbf10ec43ee940444b22ee97e00f801165e4f6790896
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains and configured as a link farm, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the overall structure and URL analysis point to a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://luckyfood.itweald.com/uploads/files/6135f439bb9a4.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://manorhair.com/uploads/files/202108312323125788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copy-office.it/userfiles/file/pizawefugenirexivixesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toliveinchristjesus.ceosale.catholic.edu.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134cbd934261---10549593616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/lodamojesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariasangiacomo.it/userfiles/files/31750686721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.jungle-flight.com/Uploads/files/18593552391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citadelcaralarms.com/userfiles/file/dilekuxixixowowidugevaxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rendszergazda-cegeknek.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lemivisiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/xojusedafobiseku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nokianhakkablue.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nitimejovesisobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wavedetanebegenagovonud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pnk7br5sjgogh5nh889bcsfia5/mavimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramor.bg/userfiles/file/70558208554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuadanang.vn/uploads/image/files/megaregevezediwaxubofir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kentacademymiango.com/userfiles/file/balovataxojoximepofipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/bizimupufogexizesabuporif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhakhoauytinhaiphong.com/upload/files/99298930719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nawaasha.org/userfiles/file/66533219421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67862786369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/26157128875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/46563896779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairbank-ia.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/semazepev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/fepaginanuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lhorizon.ca/uploadHorizon/file/78878003481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=2015+honda+civic+ex+user+manualPDF 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_off0000cc14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC14 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e426.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE426 16144 bytes
SHA-256: 1fbc3ce000005da55329157ec9e7bb340ee09bc88883400adad89429b26e52b9
font_02_sfnt_off00010dbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DBF 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 4892f695c3b12dad0ebf3fa93e0ced3e5b72ba7c4a80b81d4e594bbefcf47f3d