Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 493fb4f3330adbd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-10-12 22:18:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 4fd41421254ab3747c985c51d7686ef5 SHA-1: b37be161d490a8c7843c32818f532e7547b8162d SHA-256: 493fb4f3330adbd10a68d8593e3082676853a2385cb2f42cb67507eed271098e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of a link farm with numerous disposable domains suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination, likely a phishing page or a distribution point for further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or credential harvesting campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/95257746065.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jawarakreasi.com/file/javot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents/files/bojefizekukeseriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmrs.ps/userfiles/file/bivup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melabo.com/upload/files/3583936182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpempresa.cen.es/userfiles/files/31797042875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://napraforgohotel.hu/upload/file/debunulotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movimientofamiliadejesus.com/images/uploaded/file/samabemamoxupasibimuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143bfd135931---bolonetidiwixirivexaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alicantea.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/vonewarasipelaxokuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.training/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/46190095612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkpefa.org/editor_upload/file/89414757704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalcenterstudio.it/userfiles/files/9377621783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16161c369c1ca6---joxorukudopor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/geraxokojukepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeon-dev.com/uploads/files/202109162128224887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/52550457718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forti.in/userfiles/file/5544995396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ud-hobby.com/images/Upload/file/taxesogogasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssangyong.adasenotomotiv.com/userfiles/file/tomizufukiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/xifabogizufusogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denge.aero/upload/files/70483866957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnmetalworks.com/images/files/38044797135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/TxADE9PCSUw/uplcv?utm_term=charter+act+1853+in+marathiPDF 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_off0000ebdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDB 10760 bytes
SHA-256: adc609d7ec7d72cd6e6d097859ff7a0a1072de9dd3314ea2bc742ab4aba816f2
font_01_sfnt_off00010486.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10486 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C98 19164 bytes
SHA-256: 247b353946570e9b38bd8ba103b10d02930de1de7d748bfab972e87f8077207c