Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ae18982a334c73f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 09:49:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7501ca3b7fd3dd51e9c3fbb5ee183da0 SHA-1: 3779e4dff82963c830bc276dcebe9bad264ea020 SHA-256: 3ae18982a334c73fe3efe9eb58f6f79110251aba679f2def42f5603da5acb8ad
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was identified 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 hosting and are part of a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this is not a legitimate document. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a malicious document, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+turn+off+text+message+sync+on+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15dc381313d2a2141c591f778f6a65af/puvavuvotavopesimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/87094280559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lidaoxc.com/upload/files/fenosimavuvekose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profitaler.com/UserFiles/file/25711507644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://encino.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/87490576315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeloanz.net/images/e/file/nutemewawonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risme.vn/files/jinopusebogikopujunaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agjlwjc3g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewonom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmgec.com/Uploadfiles/files/85396271443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francois-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bekofabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvpeds.com/upload/contents/file/lesemepenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rm-centr.ru/uploads/file/jowedanagufisiredatakozof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mancomunidadvaldizarbe.com/userfiles/files/67190241144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietkinggroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/65664981888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabanagarden.hu/editor_up/mosedoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kevinmcallisterlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jozewivorokosuzinikezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91321900260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abb8897fa64c88ad424a5903539b2129/42760436038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/53021524982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmottaviproductive.it/uploads/file/589027930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ph-easycome.com/userfiles/file/matudufipategufadugudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjbmachinery.com/d/files/5931707970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suadienlanhhanoi.net/upload/files/pixogosovenawolulujileje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d127.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD127 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 9333c83305992833bd42ab5da14b703970dfe8ed9a13e4424481c6b66751e3f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB22 17328 bytes
SHA-256: e432596988ee48936341a66a5c9dc75411c03388f3a30edcda51546cdafd0cc4
font_02_sfnt_off000117a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1