Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 196c00abfbc67f12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-27 20:18:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: eb73a20a780b77c379585a26b812df13 SHA-1: 6bc59f38121e9bf80516675661e6ded1a346fb2d SHA-256: 196c00abfbc67f12698d9025f9e8f0ed4c4fe436e121a523f349c4dfd7f295fc
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely initiated via a phishing email.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://xn--h1agcmh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zazinavikevuleso.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/kafonugax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masterref.ru/editorfiles/file/walususerijuxobipowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseproduction.net/file/kegowulotinaxovurep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdsenfeng.com/data/files/mojasem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nexokaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtuae.com/uploads/file/selezigunomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentali.cz/files/files/fupokoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/40851987365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcgbaharat.com/userfiles/file/10001741889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalhousieretreat.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lusuwufesit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/welivaxukajaxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/42423506417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vgcanada.com/userfiles/file/15589928326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15881588.com/ckupload/files/16068202017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/89250437934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modernplating.com/userfiles/file/jaboxufarik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actlogistic.vn/upload/editor/files/63804321216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/94039833248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coral-travel66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1656500345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/jeritadizawowavagibapap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147a70ae1d24---mexegobukedewuniwidapulav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/63306282211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/wegenewedadobozumisip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=wps+wpa+tester+2016+versionPDF 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_off0000c1fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1FC 20632 bytes
SHA-256: 36d52caf54bd9b8de7a4fb9194e736d563248136b2efa12a86d3a623305ae5e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011004.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11004 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 4b163e82825583230c628d467e3935aded1a79ef3403514c66887150cfd21df0