Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 302ee7990209136d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:55:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3d832b20e3bbf69ee18b78a8fc33fce3 SHA-1: 8832bf51279877f2d51877908fdf4a388b0f0ebd SHA-256: 302ee7990209136dea3ff60e86b354e7af2f55b01a8eb0773371a1e410be99d2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on suspicious domains and appear to be part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure malicious destinations. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs suggests an attempt to lead users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 http://mail.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210913_200550.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://komodovo.ru/upload_picture/zinewisupufaxizawoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/31479423619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverkarenisandby.se/UserFiles/files/zeluzeraruvofefuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkl.cn/filespath/files/20210917170327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjacz.cz/soubory/files/21354152650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akgoz.zemta.com/uploads/files/52244477032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motodubai.com/uploaded_images/files/54008357620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umutisi.com/umut/upload/files/fowibodakimujikawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huucodatlanh.com/userfiles/file/ganok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/94966291693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietgame.net/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210901164930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcemsp.org/upload/editor/file/lebuzejikinamofabivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-kitchen.ru/files/files/89907941171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaindu.drogomedia.com/files/galeria/files/94357072959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/fedidix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.sk/upload/61838936537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e743e7380---jokovokosomanegasidero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taperagi.com/contents/files/vagekikalatujesazeleza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeykrishnaclub.com/images/file/95403126325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/56658788982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwtcs.org/Content/uploads/files/82777860950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibratingsieve.com/d/files/wusadefuzanivubadenugofup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coreaad.com/DreamDataUpload/file/kikavetejijafogupigisuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/22662344692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranchobg.com/img/file/dugalodakubaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://propertiesforrent.com/userfiles/file///xojiluvorerasesadatola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=play+store+download+apk+for+iosPDF 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_off0000e8ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D1 10784 bytes
SHA-256: afc94a19ce47cc292516fb3c2fdb0fb67701e7355fe77fdd8c9d2eb9a84d7f1e
font_02_sfnt_off000119ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119EA 17088 bytes
SHA-256: d3049a7ffdfe88f45d97cb7485fb2a23397735c584ce677ebcebc53a6afd79fc