Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 454883d45cedb396…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 15:59:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: fa8c375e5567a0653ac095c1ab856524 SHA-1: c98bc7c0ab142b61b39db02962dc8df3449ad787 SHA-256: 454883d45cedb3968d3b7e8e5574ad3fd8c30c52beb15180f5c292a6375f19c6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to unknown domains and are structured as link farms, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the PDF is designed to host many links on potentially disposable hosting. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://tongkhomica.com/upload/files/nasovirilekopigexite.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ilsogno-bomboniere.com/userfiles/files/4760057943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-tes.ru/files/file/xotozutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedooverseas.com/userfiles/file/31750980842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kielcenoca.pl/files/file/lativikitewipinuvegules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eec6316256---31458220471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savitravel.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24253343325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pustelnik-budownictwo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vepuzifezuped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostoncake888.com/UserFiles/files/fumaxejif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzbau-napetschnig.at/75754567697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/zedudumoxujipuwomax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zakarpattya-tour.com/upload/nanexuzidexusiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132804b286a2---xumufave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marymo.ru/uploads/files/1821913534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jills.reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/kexek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxlcd.com/upload/file/lekijawebulopod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rabotatver.ru/userfiles/admin/weraliroje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/jowewonetosipirajevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/76570765306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hankyunget.net/userData/board/file/2307733495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montoaneli.com/ckfinder/files/vikazibet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvmdigital.gr/files/files/tejobif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=mophorn+water+distiller+manualPDF 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_off0000d40d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD40D 17464 bytes
SHA-256: e22d73d8e077e1390e97cb19db3a483f66c38f86de766374b92e73fe3995ab53
font_01_sfnt_off000100cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E2 10836 bytes
SHA-256: dbeb4b1cd944e256bceb990e3da6671aaf5e6a9da58f660c16c9adb62cd753d5