Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 442a3be7fd5b2447…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-10-04 14:36:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: fcf4d0d295327eee8c3455b468a43332 SHA-1: 64ca44af95202b1cd76153aaf67ae6ddd082f092 SHA-256: 442a3be7fd5b2447c86f9bf44eee207cce4631ca124bfc2264b0bbafb8799248
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the true destination or distribute content across many low-reputation sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the ML detection strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=silver+thread+scenic+byway PDF link annotation
    • https://2-view.org/home/view/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/feruvizabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnshoppingbag.com/upfiles/file/62561396399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615360253bb3f---22368529930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nct-vn.com/userfiles/file/gunimanofedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.com/contents/files/25279463491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strings97.hu/userfiles/file/mujol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/87203558594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti-kuhni.ru/upload/files/53125586046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmconcretemixingplant.ru/d/files/32649062617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unchiulmihai.ro/files/fckeditor/file/fewopavenizovubunoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.flamanville-76.fr/upload/file/73674770695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leprofit.ee/cmsfile/contentfiles/titezesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demkapi.com/resimler/files/77792874244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cka-shiba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54016165020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150ba5f23ba3---sovajaribanuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostaninsaat.com/image/files/lomisudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreesmann-foto.de/userfiles/file/92935635587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galerie-louise.be/userfiles/files/4671813360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/kujujogimul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsphc.com/userfiles/file///30205429425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/file/22937782763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebus.cn/up_file/file/67632805896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/53465370104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramen.com/uploads/files/39582337618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/26809908695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokobrunnen.com/idata/83258187721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55767677217.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_off0000e35c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE35C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB6E 16516 bytes
SHA-256: cfcee36b0024d92607d3cf99e2fcd4a41fbefff5377e70b6251477f5ac9ceea0
font_02_sfnt_off000125c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125C3 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 3e7d21f26cc74cb3f2d9e57e1d6e847da8f5c1282898b2d6e0da1f8a45c030ed