Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2acabdc3eb38df07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 12:55:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: ed687d7ab759c27c2cfb9a4113fb4dfd SHA-1: e65fe7a661776085fb79b476a8b51c04796c3d07 SHA-256: 2acabdc3eb38df07a968e9271c6798b91400f8998c59d9fa32e63c698efabac3
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content, aligning with spearphishing attachment tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://maychieuvinh.vn/upload/files/40505795358.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur4.com/contents/files/kumaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangphatdanang.com/uploads/image/files/xopesujokibozegosipoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saga.diamonds/uploads/ckfinder/files/24623197656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/34140058960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxlcd.com/upload/file/mezoroso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37700979606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relaxzenter.com/uploads/files/vesekewesabevode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecolservizinettuno.com/userfiles/files/lexekuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bijverhoeven.nl/uploads/files/32007425102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvpeds.com/upload/contents/file/damisonapimop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pipakarekimutonemebuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pearproperties.in/userfiles/file/punipagijidunaxapax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavaszitura.eu/userfiles/files/topefiweregikaxoxivuwujeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/repop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetesopo.eu/userfiles/files/lopurujisazefipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/ratux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://romalasergroup.com/userfiles/files/9584018068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinton.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/keselunokupisamojavalen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakatarikaszel.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/xivedapomatibuvose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuabenhxuongkhop24h.com/images/files/88005736388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/rixuzotodugutepumov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614361f11cacc---vatetojizasomirukus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=cons+of+using+instagramPDF 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_off0001192a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1192A 18736 bytes
SHA-256: a906ac26aa6149be7001612312f2e0d810d07207e903e3028d5f4097d8b216e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014a5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016276.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16276 10512 bytes
SHA-256: e56ae6f4a6ca8485d440e73d0cbadb1e802f121e032876e54ea8c7dea37b0949