Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16da5c3030a92e75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 15:23:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 21ef5aa489e6165c367cc3081f6cb982 SHA-1: 16c463376748dd37466065875ca70f7d83249463 SHA-256: 16da5c3030a92e7540d3e18c56968c46e862512de4a52a265826ed3c01859c8d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed as a link farm, pointing to numerous distinct domains, which is a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs, despite some being marked as benign, reinforce the attack pattern of directing users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://ldkxzzs.com/images/userfiles/file/latusobogov.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenbrunnen.de/idata/tadoxejonififetefufasupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emblem4home.com/UserFiles/Member/File/zabezomesoruvelawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayinmaunhat.com/upload/files/13999729758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shijijiaming.cn/filespath/files/20210904081822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/42299146298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis-samara.ru/img/file/rutakogoxagowofiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pawaloriduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/regedakafanavozizureruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/denosaguvazitonerolufezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134093429f35---pilobiwozowikarawukarolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinadesigndanang.vn/uploads/image/files/kosovigazajifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lazagafilumerobulizesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinazzjx.com/d/files/zuxovoteguzomidoselebegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liho.cz/UserFiles/File/58428010036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superchills.com/userfiles/file/93191971838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/99498768412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santechnikosdarbai.lt/images/files/tekibalimagajelaxutogere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/72513388094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamsankyo.com/Uploads/file/88474666764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/74523529497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safewatersolutions.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rinorurit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-lamps-rali.eu/files/file/netonafisitipagevifedepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodova51-53.cz/files/vupekisitasivupenidunis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/16140889524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=mobile+filter+uiPDF 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_off0000d79a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD79A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFAC 18304 bytes
SHA-256: 0311d64781539de083d3cbbc0e3d5ffd64569562607d0a4ddd5d36ad96df73b8
font_02_sfnt_off00011ecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ECB 10008 bytes
SHA-256: 8e86ea6560d27e66932850aeb4fc0c98081b6a398503188d712ca8f9680928d7