Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b46b3c32eeb6ed2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:00:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 8cdea030d78cb7793249c59bb4ccb2a4 SHA-1: f25464a303aab44aa789460000446cae7e50eb54 SHA-256: 2b46b3c32eeb6ed203470399a1cf01c59ec77f6de3f35dbbb9fa07ac3aa275a0
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with heuristics indicating it functions as an advance-fee scam lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or financial fraud. The presence of numerous links to PDF files on various domains reinforces the nature of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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://a-guskov.ru/uploads/files/66157541601.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tramhuonghanoi.vn/upload/files/figuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phongkhamtamthan.net/uploadeditor/files/92087166465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velomagazin.hu/UserFiles/file/43318314902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronocertif.com/userfiles/file/mapukemobubutogegos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reckdance.pl/userfiles/file/65727674332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tischtennis-kiel.de/images/file/zenufowinomerumesowenubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210907_022218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sky1981.com/asset/uploads/files/42748176557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geya99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riwexesafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalstudio.com/images/main/file/2550135536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/81727844626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimomoroni.it/userfiles/files/81566787484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zapatosperezcabrera.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mimakerodapijal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hockjoohin.com/admin/uploads/file/43567531472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvit-bk.ru/userfiles/file/11410151348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/11592050618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/32575415294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/65559530487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kdwatch.net/upload/files/2021091609261388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestwingspa.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/44195070576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irfanmakina.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/28044388679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b4a6a91b2c734a94f933ecf41d33ffc/mazoxolabosuwemeroxavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnalog.ru/images/file/vuzikep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.benkorner.nl/admin/library/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jasuzulijawiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+quest+8+apkPDF 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_off0000d839.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD839 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 689449819890ba6929f328093d962e2fbbaa36a5032688da2cd81adeba88d56e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f119.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF119 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 8c86a2bc268ce767e4919264bb5a5452cd14a598914c98a609f2644e4ab68911
font_02_sfnt_off00011e03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1