Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 428ccc660a6db171…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 20:15:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7418cffaf7e96ab57ef0b83d89da751a SHA-1: e52002166a16bb7c7961e748bb4c5fa7473ff86b SHA-256: 428ccc660a6db17135ab7f791059839ddf5ece6bd28246aa9130c8f8d646681c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are part of a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=keep+your+head+up+andy+grammer+chords PDF link annotation
    • http://imapbook.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/17332288686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rambud.pl/uploaded/file/36322585647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alhasooncorp.com/Files/files/sotawuvuzusami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/75770928973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/sutojexirububeviturepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147a5f40e727---vubesuzopedezatunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/lorufaxifovowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prasongp.com/file_media/file_image/file/xisimotimewim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-beauty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vukalunepobivikigifoxeneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nppmaudaha.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nonisuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/tumawalazonesitixiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37678874963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents/files/15953183983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/59149867619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/31250046576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosteleriayvending.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70014003623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farmaciavictoriayjmleon.com/userfiles/files/zuvebosoduvugotizilelov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgqq.hk/tony/churchofgod/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuxusanusutizona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robedecreateur.com/img/files/20463009292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/6906278487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/disakizofod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honkakuji.jp/honkakuji/images/ckfinder/files/zikovakovidege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunsetlearningcenter.com/userfiles/file/24840432231.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c9cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9CC 18064 bytes
SHA-256: 62c20140e837a8bce9d422141faf84d0518219fb2e89e1d13ade915a19fe3990
font_01_sfnt_off0000f904.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF904 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 52fdc76cce97ca48831a497662168b13412b23a2aadca3c6377cddb0aa32b85d
font_02_sfnt_off000111ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000129fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129FB 16148 bytes
SHA-256: b17e3c388ca520c70044df51a505a8c8de3d1ca9b2e495c629779bc8d31aca59