Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3940c7aebdfa485f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-11-03 21:04:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 6feefa29cbc08a390a707a1df3bb8084 SHA-1: f9daed56da6f91ad3c6cc62a67656175438f4cba SHA-256: 3940c7aebdfa485f067611a2e87d309c68dce7630882cb73a9d44eacd5bb1e60
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to link farms and disposable hosting, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically highlights the use of link farms to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a payload download. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with exploitation for client execution, potentially leading to further stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f371943915f206014446cf6b5e53f33/levulobimimigelurotapawuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tunesistudio.eu/userfiles/files/29510528745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://powercleanperu.com/cms_powerclean_2015/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/52630085849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1617cee029357e---32769240505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vncanada.vn/uploads/files/misutanubamakosalugigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/6486848309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poketomecam.com/uploads/files/3844765136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhhangkhong.com/upload/images/files/46448783239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyklo-wellness-penzion-palice.cz/content/rewemomotadevinita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/rulejipozisunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behbehaniprojects.com/uploads/files/41859979894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duhochoangthanh.com/upload/files/38557116706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/webikizefuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausbaumesse.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33655741401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://votejoedestefano.com/editorData/file/faretemebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://855solution.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/zexizad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeorden.com/media/file/64841880850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designmaster.in/scgtest/eec-new/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23299839076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/guvofedoraxunikozudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://formacio.fic.cat/uploads/file/jujagebunazodasemuxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indian-sped.szabgab.hu/fck_uploads/pdf/43125465956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okul.gencreklamajansi.com/uploads/files/woverukawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-3ed4d7413bdb.prshots.de/uploads/userfiles/1630605723/files/wijenuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/u-9XGpgKpwY/uplcv?utm_term=easy+pdf+converter+download+freePDF 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_off0000d93a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD93A 16692 bytes
SHA-256: 49f1b20734256f97d9bc1d7a299837164da7932be5eede4db6829fe5ff7ebd9d
font_01_sfnt_off000104c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C5 10772 bytes
SHA-256: e34bc568bdc30dacd06dc3ccb08fc1b990557f2fb01a2b9a20be0c3df44dd176
font_02_sfnt_off00011dd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1