Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4dd2a70097d140da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-09-29 01:46:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: bed7ffe89af335908cf62bc589761fa6 SHA-1: 24bf5d7b8b062beb4f6da5cb8fd91219b9e368b2 SHA-256: 4dd2a70097d140dab962016fc61befdcfbb068697319410a2c10d8b8fbbdf038
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external domains, many of which are structured as link farms with UTM parameters, suggesting a phishing or content redirection scheme. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating a deliberate attempt to obscure the true destination through multiple redirects and disposable hosting. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ghouls+and+ghosts+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://zhfangyuan.com/uploadfiles/files/zigimowovevugegikevubezeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasihpaham.com/contents/files/gikidebumol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saatgaamkansarasamaj.com/admin/uploads/files/8506623236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.poole.ed.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/derukuraliximajixuwami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arebiatours.com/uploads/files/bezebunopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertribo.sk/files/duviwubutazebomas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/zebajejumukakasoxurito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasadtemizlik.com/upload/file/25540226028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/698f9880b3ae73e5ff3cb41d8a6e2e78/lezeloli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ganganagardentist.com/userfiles/file/pijodikibuwimus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbexpertise.fr/catalogue_dynamique/file/kogobezevopajeteteruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-pushkino.ru/upload_picture/file/xurebaliwidazuzukusepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dilimkebab.com/userfiles/file/79303520382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/53706844945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusheng168.com/uploadfiles/20210925013546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/zasujupedugidolabebifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/57940970674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reha.bg/content/upload/file/40668237785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liho.cz/UserFiles/File/lozarawopemadibivuvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88ddd61f07239d8fd39916e97ecb9c9f/45355060577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/pogofibezomasanevexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobaldizzone.com/userfiles/files/livulivufopororaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastriklandsbf.se/UserFiles/files/72316620349.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_off0000b6d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6D7 10576 bytes
SHA-256: cc089e4eb0ccaa2442593c8e5258f23ae2170ddb3f8c853f9faea0ee8cde41a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ceca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCECA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e6dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6DC 19596 bytes
SHA-256: a8782c482e68792bb6a60f41437ab1bcfde0cf9d2421d398dfdf94557b94f1fc