Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46ad009666b0c1a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 20:34:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 748f9c65e7f801277b3f78462268bde7 SHA-1: 806126f493a2be31e7d89b27205ae46a7aa74a23 SHA-256: 46ad009666b0c1a60028ecfe84ea4a26c45351335d7e0386d62b5b872592c4c9
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external domains, with one specifically identified as a link farm on disposable hosting. The PDF structure and embedded content suggest it is used as a lure to redirect users to potentially harmful websites, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+cast+from+ipad+to+android+tv PDF link annotation
    • http://cristal-in.fr/userfiles/file/putifotozulanefiluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/gilujozivavolezotosutiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floresdeserrezuela.com/aym_image/files/gatunobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iktoktatas.hu/files/file/voxozeduzopuwafur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabinetpro.pl/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/94290597017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhfangyuan.com/uploadfiles/files/pebevidirinitupubipop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamcohoaian.com/webroot/img/files/bupezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wibuxisisejikaziji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/didagedopedopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damnoen.com/ckfinder/pho/files/6263078748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ravevudumimomug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilymillerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fofigawoxukifaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muntepa.com/userfiles/files/jufedojukozuraped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c7cg6bh4bvcf1vn6qbk7tmuej/99567635417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travellifeafrica.com/ci/userfiles/files/50798710674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitrine-prof.com/files/xabujopewutasola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totoumi.jp/upload/file/wezagedasop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radiopoint.cz/userfiles/file/92597255755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/80631083118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jocafoto.com/fotos/file/zugukigavoguvizum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plymouth-logs.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bivopapetuvalif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romovi.net/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/lifazumirogimekisaned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oomewatersport.nl/upload/files/53371175924.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_off0000beb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6CC 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 4618bceefe25f6db5977ef875946cf92bf4343b3880eb3fc75d9ee37cea36f0f
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF86 16308 bytes
SHA-256: c7eb7326458896c19f57fac47c7a9ca3e496da6ef1b9862ace21f3e07db298c4