Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f4c3fb00916e920…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 20:47:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 48cad56a2b930a0b6cfd62cd3162a5d7 SHA-1: acf2920f03bb333df5366fcd60717529c23e85fe SHA-256: 4f4c3fb00916e92041389aa128c7e707a8320e99096a7b92337f4a87d931bace
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are used in a link farm pattern. ClamAV and an ML classifier flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of external URIs and the link farm heuristic indicate a strong intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=winx+club+mystery+of+the+abyss+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://eko-briketes.lv/userfiles/files/12807196248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/mowaxatopavedudopade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/gotaloxefuwajawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhao-tech.com/userfiles/file/livaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polins.org/public/userfiles/file/rimodikuxuzogasiginuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/59421131374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://griby.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90007302219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhins.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/zalobapanaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/37858400515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138873305537---74529461250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fggtogtilqtmddno2f00vbhnl5/95306678131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9jamail.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/81572802767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncteonline.com/userfiles/file/65665365059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tradeweb.es/userfiles/file/19377320062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambresisemploi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/venoxofutadet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/takisuwipesukolapanuledi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80ag1a2a.xn--p1ai/files/file/xumipuribox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.info/userfiles/files/95844262277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codienlanhminhquang.com/upload/files/zupudofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/befibudivadulolaligevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adice-area.com/pictures/files/87284298281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tndgdemo2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuxajetifezaminefonenoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podolsk-kondicionery.ru/upload_picture/file/govatuwipebipuworugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csn-alliance.com/data/files/zerisube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/54265622249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.be/Images/file/dotofolox.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_off0000b49f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB49F 14892 bytes
SHA-256: b9d57661d1898c4a012a2c80b7088ae3103a6283e327824ec129562d61a2af34
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1DA 11424 bytes
SHA-256: 569b2d3bcf1705186ba136f34440f34c7441e32b38298f91f4cb8a5cb646a734