Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 293c31416c707c3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 14:18:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 30c519cc87467012165ac2eb278b08d2 SHA-1: 2d511114fb891c0beba3276b26222b0ac68e4b4e SHA-256: 293c31416c707c3a24f411b8feb74644c41af1dc1e9b63948ddaff8334ebff70
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute further payloads. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of many external links is the primary indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 https://tonymusic.se/UserFiles/files/32520877470.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://corianderedmonton.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91990217552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnhaihui.com/userfiles/file/20210906190110_1840511359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuchem.com/upload/files/20969023418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/xikerusuzuzubugipode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastholten.nl/userfiles/file/pakumudazudefuzipagimutop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archidaldegan.eu/userfiles/files/jajiduvalejevejisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhuadailoan.vn/upload/userfiles/files/3198756200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixturkey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/835658152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinemidias.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bevujideselozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd7b0d2e64d5d7a89f837b805d0d1e9b/79067797481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncdesign.it/userfiles/files/51278393152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoneza.cz/UserFiles/File/wufonewoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/27471367166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/38161767038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/kejik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mc-opony.pl/files/file/zobeniwaligudenezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beeshark.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/38374473286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/041433204205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364c2b22006---74068224674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbeo1acdy3adh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/98361543434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://justforjetscatering.com/userfiles/image/files/lirugujalerujomiwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ableton+manual+compressionPDF 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_off0000e2cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2CD 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 6ff3a045955f5b51ad9e1794b16abaa5737f49c8db5c7afda7d86f113df46665
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001135e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1135E 19120 bytes
SHA-256: 9b38352aa47370c37db302fa1d5218603b966af092d375af2be5b9fa6abf0277