Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16944b46cfbc256e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 15:42:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7a017d06ea27a63a67ebc497405a1c3e SHA-1: c8bb061399542768658c16d4ca40f9158ce30a27 SHA-256: 16944b46cfbc256ea39298180f9aa8eae53c50cc201866a2df6aebf409fdefe6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, and heuristic analysis indicates it functions as a link farm on disposable hosting. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution vector. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://korvioinfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10788771481.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aslplastic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vizuluzuxabifewizivezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadingedgecorporate.com/user_images/file/9999155323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congthuonghotel.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/nagunimutupivamit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/92750849630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139954fee2ad---kogedilarojufopelemipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoachattn.com/image/files/soluzesuxozikoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inoxquochoang.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/93321791300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konteshamamotu.com/userfiles/file/sikuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apart1day.ru/file/76629194895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://v-rshine.com/upload/images/files/32560465598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wangwangcamp.com/uploads/files/202109082153288067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annabarons.com/files/files/kotawalapugovumijijuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oreopay58.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34637238835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/83490696717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learn-atdi.com/uploads/files/basidinubiwunune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-soar.com/userfiles/file/risolidosurojewuzefugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/31041964722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/vodezuzifaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagrupacio.cat/file/belumadenama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seikai.jp/free_images/files/senewodafofun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gezubelive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgranit.pl/userfiles/file/54067971018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adrijbbb.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/galere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=class+a+push+pull+power+amplifierPDF link annotation
    • http://crossfit28.com.s125853.gridserver.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/79801073892.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_off00010c41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C41 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012458.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12458 10640 bytes
SHA-256: e3b70faa2f30c7a83ac808da43c19183e980e80d273deabd4bc668b4384f54bc
font_02_sfnt_off00013cc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CC1 17932 bytes
SHA-256: c408db875f5ed44ed9c2330699f04cf9528361bd37bebca76d7ea82b37974e0f