Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42ef2ed4b56908d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 06:32:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: acf1cd679169c9a20058e44637f75d03 SHA-1: 2c94d1a47e0748904c12f86547e0a2a8a0d984a4 SHA-256: 42ef2ed4b56908d7bc4084726fd351e764198e2e7b3e76fea8b8c26427a9fb1b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to potentially disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The presence of a PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating the document is designed to distribute links. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bipefen.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ce5f2b7d9---sovotigun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/11541242181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://win-sonic.com/ck_imgs/files/81300210079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khmernative-rice.com/userfiles/file/28591586674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e2126adca5---73961688075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkjv.com/Images/Media/files/43877501864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/lusurates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/69393569484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/jujixemaranapimid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/xorozetovajidejev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longtra.vn/userfiles/file/korevezanegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asr-net.ru/uploads/files/dujuvepojaneribedefatum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbwingslynnhaven.com/uploads/files/94642013505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vps73.juicy-group.com/editor_upload_image/file/14384341953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitmet.slektenkaas.com/bilder/file/xuvedavapifunumov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francescofesta.it/userfiles/files/kizinoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210908170803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moskvaznaet.ru/upload/files/safojoxewobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kredoteka.ru/uploads/file/muxidufiwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silver1979.com/upload/file/81626505306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walterchiropracticclinic.com/home/walter/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10758406903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntvietnga.com/upload/files/41661251493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chongtham68.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/woxoxawativawelujefoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=adult+rpg+game+for+androidPDF 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_off0000f77f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF77F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F96 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 61c5594bff7cfce74ccc83d5984643726e94e5766f19ce847f1d0f2f8aa6863a
font_02_sfnt_off0001280e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1280E 16904 bytes
SHA-256: 80dfdd1adfd32278a548666680ff64cf33c05669b3d59a87ff94570bb3139994