Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bd18ee6165a5b48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-10-04 13:22:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6fa3c723222fc182d91c30abca638883 SHA-1: 49eb77d5a9cc26510aab9e4dbe8da9e6be820d4f SHA-256: 2bd18ee6165a5b4805a2670a9228ce1d1bb01ca0b30b98d0e08daaeac33fa777
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the document is a link farm, and the ML classifier and ClamAV detection confirm its malicious nature. The embedded URLs, though many are unknown or benign, contribute to the overall attack pattern of directing users to potentially harmful sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the structure suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://szallas-karpatalja.hu/upload/zifosudovemutisirimij.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmebk33nkjq396ntus0i5feums/99015810808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chulintemple.org/CKEdit/upload/files/xenatepavisaxakaxidirex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertworker.paraleumarian.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/kawidiwevowuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mmd.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/potugizazamolokatusur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafosaleservice.cz/images/fck_editor/file/53447813718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umutisi.com/umut/upload/files/52238618324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file/files/14859186256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inistor.com/ufiles/files/64485940465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kortennis.co.kr/B/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57727560026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/5348474254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindicav.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mavapig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fan-consultants.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3926157211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnyten.net/userData/board/file/38237364119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yaofangpeixun.com/upload/files/18637473621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesht.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/senikafiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podiummagazinenews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20526944910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bburago.info/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/tetagabivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bartonsteel.com/tony/barton/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3517867459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.info/userfiles/file/72496521704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/fupebasibetidifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rem-proekt.com/f/file/85338632118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eviljoy.com/UserFiles/File/paruvavope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbriz.ru/userfiles/file/55764471533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=software+systems+architecture+pdfPDF 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_off0000e988.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE988 11108 bytes
SHA-256: a8ce638d9cd55c282720597ae36877692259e14be45b910a469b97aaadd90562
font_01_sfnt_off0001038c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1038C 18616 bytes
SHA-256: 965ffb6a6e9eaba6f32df2ebd3ac720053df0a5c10aebda85b90986346be6e10
font_02_sfnt_off0001342a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1342A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1