Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 496dc16208d53e23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-10 17:07:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 986ee3b731e29ae8c46e6e2d632bb2e5 SHA-1: bee1eb081c4d854d6b41c768fae88d7914746fec SHA-256: 496dc16208d53e23a37ce1e4cede487018d1e71c9b5fc8428187c55ae2a23327
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 pointing to potentially compromised or malicious domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination or distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware distribution or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://grandegroup.net/files/90280817234.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4000926935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitelesen.com/userfiles/file/20641722764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailcop.ca/files/petevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortwashington.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/kopere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/99921271386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svb-volleyball.de/userfiles/file/jejawoxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manhalhealing.com/userfiles/file/94826633589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/5858885042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e655397ca---laxukutobadunifew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613abd9f7febc---77531347869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srmtteaparty.com/uploads/files/202109022134086162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topp.pl/_topp/file/23108007714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mezon.jp/userfiles/file/fonomomoriwowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campfirewtx.org/userfiles/file/xofovufajoxerorulatovofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raegcafe.com/uploads/files/tesigefafigubasevoropavof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girisimhaber.com/uploads/file/lixemamotata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valgott.com/images/userfiles/file/40928008930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clerus.hu/files/file/pupanawoloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naveenent.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/8783780398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xenang-mitsubishi.com/fckupload/file/gevetifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0898.com/userfiles/file/20210908175143_iuwlif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-sai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rapizobuxabuwimitelipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepainter.asia/upload/files/xejebojoletolugejosaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icoenergia.com/userfiles/files/kedumukovujerutur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=world+tv+apk+cloud+tvPDF 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_off0000be61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE61 17120 bytes
SHA-256: c375b1b7e18c5257a46e147c6efaf640a8f4d1e26baca2264a070c9909b79db0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA9F 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 69b3bc27ed765e960ca92a8941ab3d2ee0fc385e6b5dd8a5d379b275f3361654
font_02_sfnt_off000101e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1