Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 176dc9a4235cdba3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-10 23:09:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f4895e964c2be063e65286bc8335cff6 SHA-1: 2e1109b3ddf6d5821ef126d722a84b6d8ce599db SHA-256: 176dc9a4235cdba3c647548ed7209a192fbdc38b5dfb6b6f9a8102e3e3fac92e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior. ClamAV detection and ML classification also indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure suggests a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/roderomig.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bellcera.60km.com/upload/files/bedekaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewoongroen.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/6094865442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cistenivytahu.cz/upload/file/12886275722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wefipipexag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aczelzalog.hu/tmp/76049988060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bytip.net/filespath/files/20210902142230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanmih.com/userfiles/file/20210904205933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saikunghouse.hk/userfiles/mokekavaxasaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukaunited4d.vip/contents/files/90431066684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadharshilaschool.org/userfiles/file/gotilenutuvemasemes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tselectromechanical.com/uploads/CKfiles/files/fasonidotib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeshopeez.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/35811154831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315fbdb5a9f---63126843434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/80966374862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gartenbaukoeln.de/uploads/files/zigulagobir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/6631892046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brawlcall.jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fokofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pachetedeturism.ro/images/files/naboxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/muberoxezuwibiriribamef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickendaylacrescenta.com/uploads/files/wisuxamavekatevofowufela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malmospelmanslag.se/userfiles/file/wasabufegivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mama-care.com/UserFiles/file/muwosurugujuxuxepumikadod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///37764595803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joinvita.com/neu/userfiles/file/33853595263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80f71f6423f18803ea3e073828d9b6c2/87811516107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=fluid+mechanics+in+si+units+pdfPDF 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_off0000c6c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6C0 19936 bytes
SHA-256: 6a55931958ffb5cf734e05f6affd53475888c9b525302b8cc976f48a5afb2829
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011296.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11296 10740 bytes
SHA-256: c12eb7779aacefef4e8967b39ab925844f02584814fc6df73a33080d25f91c62