Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f8dd8f68c1bd4bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-10-09 23:02:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 463b99a91fde7560cea3d56f8522321f SHA-1: d3d6fac3e97b5902f8f1805a31464cec8c45444d SHA-256: 4f8dd8f68c1bd4bcefed4e82e759825df651297128e30e578f0fa425d9dce375
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious domains and appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a tactic to distribute malicious content through a network of seemingly unrelated websites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9733

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://cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/vemobakamofo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.phapluatvietnam.com/upload/ckupload/files/83605559530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elemental-ia.com/userfiles/file/1051406343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennycojewelry.com/userfiles/files/202109/1632516837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/wikenolinopinuxido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mptradingcompany.com/userfiles/file/namiwifofudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boden.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/penodubatufunekavobuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59088182514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolauniversale.it/userfiles/files/44753989979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lctrading-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dusolulilef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikdercollegeofpharmacy.com/scp/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/bopagimixoxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/vudasaveje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ecb8167d35---95779296633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okud-istra.hr/userfiles/file/vimujunigizowuvefevag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddnepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/60653647458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcongluc.com/upload/files/nuzope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3efe6ac8c92eb5013a546479a1a81a3c/22252941916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungland.net/uploads/image/files/568621610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/sitajefejume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marmaraisg.com/images_upload/files/tatoluzaguge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyo-g.net/userfiles/file/98165159588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/13705001682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traffictkt.com/viking1/uploads/files/lawelukukakijomiruku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/55550071244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylpqzl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kamot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservice.com/uploads/files/xeweli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=forsake+meaning+in+englishPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f23a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23A 25664 bytes
SHA-256: 20926542fd6866bebe9d7fa820e8958c86ff47f5dee52cddbf25ef80f7becbeb
font_01_sfnt_off000132db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014af2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AF2 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 4697aeea8c9b2d60ec423f36c1f026c7e453c6b12caf7404b712e33a64581e0b
font_03_sfnt_off000162a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162A2 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 61a689b2040f4a35dbc6fa766f7c43776a64fdb5ab975a49d30241655d41e80a