Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48ba22ab02cfdb09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 16:53:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bbe820221af220289591d8a20dde5cc3 SHA-1: 3b4145fb5d2b528e9a548e23b36aa04da09b93dd SHA-256: 48ba22ab02cfdb098f6a26d356ea430f700231c196b85c0e5ee40c434d9c5d66
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/lejutajo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://it-remarketing.pl/app/webroot/media/files/37415826877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myagreement.com/UserFiles/file/lagudazobumibofewejowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asclyziarskyklub.sk/userfiles/file/24680623853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://workinhotel.com/upload/fckfile/14357377284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eska-lift.ru/userfiles/file/xejibinumubusodusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroytehcentr.ru/images/file/goginelozikonububifaxope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dafelia.com/files/burulerubilukajibegoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/zigovelefujuwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11668689759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161380088f0018---91415177921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saikunghouse.hk/userfiles/26292035088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23506493171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cansuyu.org/resimler/files/najepuvojefojuvisaporezif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/65461725417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowie.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/pebozoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/semivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://problemconsulting.com/img/download/files/riroloba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.net/contents/files/84101151296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5ky13lu3-1251.com/contents/files/44640249760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzsunup.com/upload/ruwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db39b1eecf---gujuwajolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/15326249989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volpatoebrum.com.br/_common/admin/scripts/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pivatutapawewutotud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/ripukoxetuwogufus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakipoglugroup.com/upload/ckfinder/files/13459149216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+check+if+your+android+is+rootedPDF 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_off0000f601.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF601 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E13 18904 bytes
SHA-256: fdc96af0014ef9364666e848cdc6cbc55b27068c56aa8483c89772c48b7a6dfd
font_02_sfnt_off00013f5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F5C 10908 bytes
SHA-256: dd5de5f2468160231c74f1c88f146805afb19443af26b3567fbfc7cb07659f64