Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28f09ce41daf7249…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-10-06 00:45:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 48e8732c42c1e2fd61f4c4acc98519f2 SHA-1: 2a4c1cb693884b8ce41b12326957191d7cefae22 SHA-256: 28f09ce41daf7249627afa36a17106c45cc72c44cb2f9b95917ec045a9b509ab
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it's used to redirect users to potentially malicious websites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7561

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=7th+grade+geography+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu/data/editorfile/kufaxinasanaxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamishehbaharcarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/fedonazebeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebossa.pl/files/file/36793014117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nrgmedia.hu/files/file/28901651554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/16221180667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konyanincigkoftecisi.com/userfiles/file/zavom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keramann.ru/uploads/files/48457318309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/52999356716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubler-son-capital.com/photos/files/fimibuwitezakumovoludinig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgicorp.com/userfiles/files/zolawadanikaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konyaalotaksi.com/userfiles/file/fopodeperumibekagil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/897064123d9458908f565dcfd92dd7a8/kakimupediguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkai.com/uploads/files/wipodeniwudaxadorusapoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdauvietnam.vn/upload/files/84487836671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2704r4uhtas2q6gai8369hd4u3/kinekivad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aeekk.xn--p1ai/files/file/tikowef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suny.cz/files/file/95756141939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/lesogufokusaxugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tedeluwujiminakuvosuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belly.bpv.su/content/files/files/80471837676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/motodapufijerejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0955205219.jwa.tw/userfiles/files/xovil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/jevanapudibusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e111.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE111 18596 bytes
SHA-256: 245707458a9befa6f013487757cfc46395696cfb26c85d5c6cdf7a7d46228b99
font_01_sfnt_off00011147.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11147 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1