Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41d8bf17d0847efe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-09-14 09:16:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 707834ae3a73e995087a60dc4d2bfe44 SHA-1: 2d55e107a44976f623304211c8794e4d52a65bb8 SHA-256: 41d8bf17d0847efe1a67aa558cdb05d9e21792a0ea7d8a347cc3940b43c1406f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to PDF files on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically indicates this behavior. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://mimzyonline.com/userfiles/file/zogumimakawubuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rivieresoceanie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90794269660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpt.mysmartedu.com/uploadimages/files/naferekejelas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/14001426382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/92368904923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiflex.ru/userfiles/file/pujagifufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec9ea2267f---27313765079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asap-recruitment.net/upload/file/60998596718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vpsystem.com/files/fck/9408706404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ocean-ex.com/images/blog/file/dobodironezidisijetivuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morganmethod.com/ci/userfiles/files/16383181268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://restaurant-kamkok.fr/img/Data/file/831695121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aggmy8c6c.net/UserFiles/File/zuvukezaligegifibazuzowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/mepare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/vugafemugotew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gldbirdgel.com/user_img/files/42379073280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/feveneziluzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speak82.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/79554289874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doluhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nagozoribejawuketos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spandoekland.nl/userfiles/file/zulefapotazuravetelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thibiditrading.com/public/userupload/files/35930979479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/lejeratikom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdbe037fabecb681166149513561345e/sasekupitiwawepalufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xutricolor.com/uploadfile/files/wuvojasepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28165952904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnationwide.com/userfiles/files/20255929841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+take+a+filter+off+a+snapchat+picturePDF 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_off0000f290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF290 18880 bytes
SHA-256: 014c2ef9dbac0c2287cf2db402fcc820f80251940d507bd2043650adbcc0429e
font_01_sfnt_off000123ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013bc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BC2 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 72559c1ca86166334e055abc0bcd3cfa9a46bf8125fc9f67512fb45f679b1c78