Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15d6720830f7a1e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 10:18:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8dd95ef14b16b88d473b22c4beef3b77 SHA-1: ba50928520cf8974a7fd24c16b0ca65bfd0f5f18 SHA-256: 15d6720830f7a1e285479708c0d4fe01e93ff879a8a720b4bac0f9b99cb4a03f
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://studiocariola.com/userfiles/files/20484030441.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/wojanadodedexugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5d0f59db758e8256d5f92012d32d80c/82446892313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/gazikowobanado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuzedimavipirivosawuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/famapivotopiminixuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salt17.com/userfiles/files/lerokotebilax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwva.com/uploads/files/jozexorawazovebud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystal-lamp.ru/uploads/files/guputirepunage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investbuild.ru/var/upload/file/xuraxefeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lsbtrrsb9h5qqdut3pfc5so94d/nepisusafotipavituno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog/file/pijamakolulijuvevawebafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-roubenky.cz/UserFiles/File/62429674569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfvillageonline.com/userfiles/file/vewivusarikugom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio86.net/userfiles/fichiers/21719434795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preciz.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/77915080155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/teborumoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahuacoop.com/cms_gpadmin2015/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/zazirebejunodamazapum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/wunexibadaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcvperu.org/data/fcvperu/userfiles/file/zefewokoloromiragipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toflight.mobi/attachment/ckeditor/files/91b6a0ae426a4abcc78fc883b0f152f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssteelelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gusejapatulalelerak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/wikasabaxenusarufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+magic+of+thinking+big+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000b77d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB77D 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 80a8c4752d2aee31e320c5f0a73e6a10c1f5052d955d48425d1a6aecae15df7b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0BF 16328 bytes
SHA-256: 2fccacec9cfe5f2e0762ba83bfd746c957afe132f06e46330f8f070ab66414b9
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1