Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20863dcd213e7f81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 05:10:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b9e8a4a13a2a51ff73baf90fcf4d1c30 SHA-1: e8ef1cd914f720e7012983fffd2f9c56c6613265 SHA-256: 20863dcd213e7f814b7053bc93e1d25ea33dbdedc3976fe34495a10593b21792
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are likely used to redirect users to malicious sites. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, suggesting a link farm designed for obfuscation or distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristics suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://hb-hospital.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/megute.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adhunikjewellers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4114190705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f27szerviz.hu/upload/files/vewawuget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langyupharm.com/upload/files/lemoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/domigugaworefevoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jexegej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60sfteuu63oheshbh56dih76k6/60733782662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwayoung.kr/upfile/files/37348650512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palakkadtourism.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/rawifelekujegumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhnienxp.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/kijaxovivavalude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogologistics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xodokezapurizafib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/wotejutavemiketuvipag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/58705366868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fs-select.com/images/blog/file/7747447204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peak-experience-europe.com/images/blog/file/53554602184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poptheme.cn/uploadfile/files/20210908_140218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chuyennhakienvangvn.net/upload/files/48354330416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b0f36dd7a2---baperadewataxasigowode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemeckystrakac.sk/editor_uploads/files/36622938380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/87814565153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilsungwarehouse.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/78807601504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masadonaxeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=lucid+launcher+pro+apkPDF 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_off0000c9a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BD 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 10a055d3466809051ca97549e9a60789dfee260f17edc39d67a6dbf315391909
font_02_sfnt_off0000f96b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96B 19532 bytes
SHA-256: 16e69dcaad795a301ed81a473d320732a3298c4fb79089046d7a79c7c68a37fe