Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fbdaf89df118c47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-30 11:34:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8551c305858296187638dd67dd1f5335 SHA-1: 3d9d1010849600c8d94975729494c3ed15c803b1 SHA-256: 4fbdaf89df118c47fa74b31af56c027338261d9f81bb9ab876ec8e8d821cf886
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating a tactic to distribute links across disposable hosting. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bloxburg+house+90k PDF link annotation
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/89688272412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nocleginaplus.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/582500881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/duxunupavosutijagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/tozeforeligenedega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__61427B2159FE3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasanmasat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nanorebebaguzuzisisizoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-ned.com/uploads/files/wuxugosagojami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bexudezuxirulosefoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spartapr.com/images/upload/file/49349623510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/mepidifupuvezinawakojovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungculamdep.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/245736710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fa3e11c724---39660817935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/gopix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://er-trans.com/img/produkty/files/89844505849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobaliva.eu/userfiles/files/28373877637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/setapemojozutamejuwifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62ea7d170c77a3bd1f018fb7243e62a2/91792828083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/kewofikimurireka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/sowajapufewimukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stl-log.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/wedefamazezowukamodapav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badeluxe.com/userfiles/files/3498179825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/vebasewagozedobak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.com/upload/editor/file/6746195580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/xibepep.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_off0000b38f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB38F 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 1b8d6e2db8da4f416710e9dcabe17a34063c7205efc787e2cd9a8257ed51f63a
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC52 15744 bytes
SHA-256: ee33ccf11630e13fd53a851fa2154df5a770592250f504fe9f3cc42891afb93c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF480 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1