Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ab509fca12a18e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 08:55:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: de0eb27a1fcbfc3695ee75fd09cc494d SHA-1: d816f1f1491c0461f61d2f996ef5803793a7a691 SHA-256: 2ab509fca12a18e62f76c608594f2068768fb5f9c3045c0b0eecbddd486d4e60
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains and configured as a link farm, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a malicious intent to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

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://resheto.ru/users_images/fck/file/73509991885.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://christschoolblr.in/userfiles/file/54971261855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148058f250fc---87138179962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spzpoz-zdunskawola.pl/upload/file/gegoxane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614164a3307ac---53822669064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlionshousing.ca/userfiles/file/nusikojilisolufemosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/63361894803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iaido-iaijutsu.ru/userfiles_exc/muroda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safetypadlocks.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/61418136103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poddertradingandindustries.com/userfiles/file/15788801196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/41369282374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemdanangpho.com/uploads/2021-09-11/images/files/56267798740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papaicountrylodge-longstay.com/user_img/files/janumabixelaguvala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fertilityupdates.com/userfiles/files/11178873913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comac-international.cz/userfiles/file/18559370819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhome-listings.com/userfiles/files/sufugabuwuzan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macierz-grodziec.org/files/file/46251464062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamcohoaian.com/webroot/img/files/31016659318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g55net.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/judoduvuwopuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lobanowscy.pl/userfiles/file/33291669491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnfhdc.com/UpLoadFile/2021092007271185463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me/files/mefadedazotefewos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosettes.it/userfiles/file/viwunofonuxuveju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lensprovn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28150010075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=android+app+su+sdPDF 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_off0000d2d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2D3 18460 bytes
SHA-256: 58f57ae03ae636983e87e854abe72786be5275a2cb3ad4d44aca823a93a350f0
font_01_sfnt_off00010290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10290 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 83d4c987d96ad1b8db71ad8a99134814b66b6e7594b7358f426ef9dd58a5ee96
font_02_sfnt_off0001196f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1196F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1