Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c52e39d1fb03a9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 16:01:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: bb8d950b6769c0a537178cd413721b70 SHA-1: 6b299975558da1727a4bac05be94d1f7d3b30d0b SHA-256: 1c52e39d1fb03a9fce334ae30ffccca588efde0fe846a701c6d4522494dbd404
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, strongly suggests a phishing or link-farming attack. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct textual clues, but the overall structure and heuristic firings indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://onmamtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_CBE7DCE53CF98A35.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://monthclean.com/uploads/files/202109100402007421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dovolena-jiznicechy.cz/uploads/monikivifusikutizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.com/neu/userfiles/file/51955090417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komodovo.ru/upload_picture/pavos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/22587677446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chatham-ebenezer.ckdomain.com/uploads/userfiles/files/15787019873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandfiltr.com/files/file/24188766806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/63625891156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/mozolupagesubesejinazazes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajhansnursery.com/userfiles/file/61020385776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jakspravnenapsa.cz/userfiles/file/kubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_11555424D8D601A8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://undergroundtakeout.com/userfiles/file/gegox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriologos.it/userfiles/files/libazezibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de99e203414d48f81be140f563a6a18e/bomijifijimujomuwozapovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cp-1.ru/userfiles/files/37754277064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoprofi.ua/userfiles/file/33191556053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ks-klinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pakovavabisolij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161328404af117---60049723243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.com/aym_image/files/25381949245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fa43367162---75536209670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekkercoon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14759713662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10fci.org/userfiles/file/79814804783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=boost+like+instagram+freePDF 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_off0000da60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f277.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF277 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 9508a948dc937824e333fb314b3412f728ede25a0677cb656760cc209db351a5
font_02_sfnt_off00010b08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B08 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 0a5d539d5b82ce423fff15cdbae62a47378f75536b8b1610a7bedab787d71978