Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ea6e1c90d782a07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 18:57:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: b73066bdb21b229df80dd22b56319c25 SHA-1: e4b3968c28a72aa8249d5d618cd4d27d9d1a702e SHA-256: 3ea6e1c90d782a07e347d1404e5e0431661c2c707396b0cd67b451e168e5e589
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a medium-severity rule indicating it's a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs, many pointing to PDF files, suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://architettotoma.it/userfiles/files/57558638532.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ckpak.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/guxisuluvalejimedawaxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnnc.vn/img-hdmedia/files/wazefunotanifuledoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bvphcn.bdata.vn/upload/files/pazugojevenobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irs-messtechnik.at/upload/28602506689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettodrabeni.it/userfiles/files/40708843075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eg-connect.com/uploads/editorfiles/file///54679772463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bankubezpieczen.pl/userfiles/file/zobopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aescantabria.es/upload/fckeditor/file///nuvutobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsprojekt.eu/userfiles/files/rizijebog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryouhurt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/86896546770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aventura-agence.lu/userfiles/files/werusogifamate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb8d162793---2100022321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/10358477523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://it-hair.com/userfiles/letasujevupireke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents/files/mavemusakuvatut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conviviodihera.it/dati/upload/file/feduzizibenexexujoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a2fa2a31109794daae181a473c9f6d4/ginevagarobeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willajarmar.pl/userfiles/file/94752242080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alptw.com/images/files/75161703185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imbirimbir.ru/files/80819708006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/31139238282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infosantiere.ro/userfiles/file/vipeludadabifewevipevabip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=psp+games+download+low+mbPDF 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_off0000cef6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEF6 17444 bytes
SHA-256: 5cb213d734c1d1b9d2a0383dd7c77cdc88f7fa1c4ceded08fd5ed74d82dc22b5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5D 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 927ebdebe77f054a8d3a06d023d95cbae9eb283b7d4f8bead1229c11630e63d7
font_02_sfnt_off00011476.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11476 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1