Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d1d711f592b1c54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-29 15:01:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 61daeb2f4e70fdc0e6005879e0fba734 SHA-1: b40f67db80644c80e9b3c2c5471f00468821e7bf SHA-256: 1d1d711f592b1c547f73a1bcd09d81d1d5b096945e5750a281c970464b3958b6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on various domains. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting and multiple distinct hosts, common in phishing campaigns to evade detection. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content, but the overall structure and heuristics strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/411171c7f6adb4b8e553167335963da5/wuwopevisirudade.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://parlagame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/femofunotilapufiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/wolutubivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okun.su/upload/file/32665337003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-baby.ru/userfiles/file/57003703034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eownauto.com/uploadpic/files/jenival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahirealty.in/admin/userfiles/files/gesugefaxadudapegelizutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ochronaskory.pl/pliki_user/File/6258717074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://union.travel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16903690679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23528644181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/3147072751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtrafitcoaching.com/www/images/files/lasurumekatulerapinikav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchhaves.com/uploads/files/202109290157575741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnhhgj.com/upfiles/userfiles/file/wamafamonodovikeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb0f78ad70---3909277573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deeringbayrealestate.com/userfiles/files/88857101255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limuzine.md/userfiles/file/jesotixabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/20921410658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/budizowuwogeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vititanon.com/user_img/files/kudogusemebetizuparax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/merimuvalagivujavofofum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021092417501773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=cool+math+games+dolphin+olympics+2PDF 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_off0000ad7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c592.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC592 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 8c8a4d92d39510244414634ab8603939cf2ff26e1dda8dc0aef6b98bd7753fc9
font_02_sfnt_off0000df44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF44 15384 bytes
SHA-256: e9ebd48bacfde0cc02c2b3b69bf0ac7ccc8ef893feb5483fc9b704498e9e54f6