Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d12790dc3ee7281…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-14 11:47:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 61a8f3ff51b90306fd7fb93a8f8fe473 SHA-1: 102b433e231c7eeaba0f0df4c7d2beaa1852e98c SHA-256: 4d12790dc3ee72813bc0108439938264fc31f427a99da0fce8ac9c626d411284
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including random URL links and a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest this is a phishing or trojanized PDF. The embedded URLs likely serve as a lure to download a second-stage payload, aligning with common phishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://studiopol.it/userfiles/files/wanotuzomoveludibupizazit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.asia/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/funilevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/65098024942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahasat.cz/data/file/koronifewukesomudatal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150006.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210909140321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pq1deskpict3t0km9qusiu2fa2/fisopisejetijaperibiber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtaixin.com/HangShun/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6623818912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjw-led.com/userfiles/file/89705246507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailpark.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/16236441208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/25422354680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palakkadtourism.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/durotivozipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobre-jaja.com/Upload/file/xosepadowilewekuxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bundoreh.com/fckeditor/files/file/84336409255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24horasnoar.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64660534561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/zevigupifosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-kcc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/35161170141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demirlermetal.com/resimler/files/fabuwosajulovitonej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87e97ac0e2bbbb50df7cf0dea17067b7/ruwepipude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/25428839174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariovianello.eu/userfiles/files/votexokanumezazovus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/59839296031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiw.bibliotekalesmierz.eu/img/upload/files/61337465955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ritascreation.com/userfiles/file/fegagagalunidimidatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zewodofinin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopadive.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49108474115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=average+loft+of+pitching+wedgePDF 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_off0000d8a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8A8 17244 bytes
SHA-256: 84fb6d1c677265ad047bf53fcbd7e9adb425c7398616524a464897cdcf87dc6a
font_01_sfnt_off0001053e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1053E 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 7136fd78f9986c7a41ec3c59a3279bf74ff3ccf05202b98cd1425c472374c7b4
font_02_sfnt_off00011e2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1