Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fb040ad1be53f62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-10 12:17:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9ad2ef68398a9e5e4d750329068f01cc SHA-1: f181d407db10a13ddfe8e6f065caf78757ef7333 SHA-256: 2fb040ad1be53f62c04a4f07efd4689c28340c175aa4794e3e0044db302912c5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm on disposable hosting, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically flags the structure as a tactic to obscure the true destination or distribute malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://myphamso1.net/uploads/files/54158626571.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137709ee13a5---38731376187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harrodsrentacar.com/public_html/userfiles/file/58761409751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1544-7419.net/upload/fckeditor/file/nanabodixisiwoxaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/51721669895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexpert.com/userfiles/file/jonegoruleveras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/37989332940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divyabodhanam.org/userfiles/file/lugituxavifina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coop-alternatives.fr/images/images/15175811005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vntattoosupply.net/uploads/image/files/votixekujofatefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20231216469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/rejununepulesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/b070dbacaea28f1d222c87e61090584c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sana-anong.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/2820703607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zsmnowakowski.pl/userfiles/file/87713737974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/25573229655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136760287440---73675065909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhquoc.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6979848194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glamour-nsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pibebevasozufepul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/32750686583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunglivet.com/uploads/files/202109011820379547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creationart.hu/files/file/sitivenovonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-system.jp/uploads/2012/files/78529604490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/zagoreza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/kumonusozagove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=heaven+knows+basic+chordsPDF 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_off0000d48b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD48B 17704 bytes
SHA-256: 6b06aa515510d46fd5fe172f6e1414e4a4bc6091777a874f2d93e20e2a6c4fde
font_01_sfnt_off00010312.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10312 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B29 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 76684dcf2dd9ea46afbf5d08bcdf52a9684234e03e55a8486ea388009452bbf7