Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3563a47f92df0649…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-10-07 05:50:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: dca1fd8d87957ecae6a74e984bd3b046 SHA-1: 0a4094a7f8e36a62bbee7d66d886fb56ba8124a5 SHA-256: 3563a47f92df06493aa14a01eab64af2e90adb9d17f6acc8302f5b53670296bc
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. One heuristic specifically identified the PDF as a link farm on disposable hosting, with a UTM term redirector, further supporting a phishing or malware distribution vector. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://jor-agric-aqua.com/user_img/files/27021807475.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerproductionline.com/d/files/bujuzakevuvijafetok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ysh.my/userfiles/file/lapexusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockefellersgold.hu/editor_up/53179024746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masterref.ru/editorfiles/file/susekupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgrappresentanze.eu/userfiles/files/mosibujewuwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobonoli.com/userfiles/files/vomugugutagojofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/96892685499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/wupedixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/muxedusevaboxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horvathortho.hu/tmp/tetokazafedokujal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fb0cf39c49---pipatomupidamuvetaxabif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leasing.net.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bezewurozudezibagazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsdienst4you.de/bilder/file/tuxotikoxikigofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenmongdangquang.com/upload/files/kejuzufemewedemexapuloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zopos.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22813965900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161420ede2a00c---zupuwogivenowejemiwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tootooair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_BC17E7EB144F0AAE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/feroguwuruvekivezabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkydoanhnghiep.org/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/67852383270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-ark.it/userfiles/files/xedopid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logistiekverbeteren.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fupudojabanujafeneno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipnovini.bg/root/f/uploads/files/jozajidebusudotemasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sibodiwebijoxokopojeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkuys.handysociality.com/upload/files/jiwaxodobowivetulupape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plantessentialoil.com/upload/files/xapulojuwowule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=mcmurry+organic+chemistry+8th+edition+solutions+manualPDF 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_off0000c684.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC684 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE9B 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 8456fcc24b2335a8186dc62cc9568504121fff6691e69dab3f86a065efd6dc6a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF890 17964 bytes
SHA-256: 6954a3c85ecacda13843c8067e9f53bd943846d5ae263a92843ba8c9858cf26f