Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25be81d3bb181927…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 11:50:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: fbffb4f3a6e392fff9913b32438e252d SHA-1: deadd593b1aa3a44f626e92d9b1f05bab36b4761 SHA-256: 25be81d3bb181927ec2e422c83ea6f65f152e6e19f3bf1283f32a4263efcc450
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to unknown or potentially malicious domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the true destination by using multiple distinct hosts. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest an intent to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://houtackers.nl/userfiles/file/nafukatororobibuka.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://generalaudit.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/noxogutudiwofabegaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gdchgs.com/admin/img/files/paxupiwajono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--krmer-dnnebacke-1kb72b.de/files/file/dilowesutedinodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://presssimayeshahr.ir/pic/file/bezufadewuxamarifuromelon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atavio.ru/files/file/sokinuliguzovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/83604860563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/96424982659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oceanflowerhotel.com/uploads/image/files/43654079233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odesignlab.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53169230728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://somogyplusz.hu/files/53693782322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/lugativezamawokagulujidep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/11473174433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/28636950053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33773101482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigapilar.com/upload/files/fifakakitude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paymentor.nl/uploads/file/14449515687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hankilfood.com/userfiles/file/20210911085913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/99776255092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f819ad0ec6---55769270565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/xobonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewellmanteam.com/userfiles/files/43827381307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catherine-massage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8709996618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=audio+extractor+androidPDF 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_off0000cc4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC4C 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 13d960ca80fb26db99436321a33cee689ce0f4e0d3e6210948bee21ad6dd73b4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C0 17280 bytes
SHA-256: 106c29432bc5b69991d536c7714f8f6370995e1458d1c1fc1b101288e627cb48
font_02_sfnt_off000110d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1