Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 501a05a365ced00f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 00:36:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d351d9427908e98641f247ab5fc69c78 SHA-1: 622d3eb659963dbf03c35a2951534702c442599c SHA-256: 501a05a365ced00f7a75bb7b4b531f5232ade21cd7308fa7ef01468137ffb70b
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially disposable domains, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it's designed to redirect users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://beeshark.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/marewamusugigawajo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://custom-mugs-factory.com/uploadfile/files/7855972253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijestr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gezubogafozox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetsnab32.ru/userfiles/file/midofamizuluforetagunubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totalblissbeauty.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87009598863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corkpotters.com/images/99558205491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippinnudon.com/uploads/files/tebitipere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/28613206038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/tesofaxanikaladix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbeaindia.com/userfiles/file/66784656485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presstone.hu/userfiles/file/56108404192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613758035dec5---paxegekikate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluelakehomestay.com/uploads/image/files/56322704429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98595087822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijinmotor.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/16725848300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/25526913244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igs.compcierge-asia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76231157760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exima.kr/userData/board/file/77161302733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysolutions.it/uploads/assets/file/35041402727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c1c31726d---70253701445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manhremhoangvan.com/wp-content/uploads/files/bujekapujiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanaspinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xotir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanmih.com/userfiles/file/20210905030829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=mod+apk+for+hungry+sharkPDF 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_off0000be5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d66f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD66F 16936 bytes
SHA-256: 4bfa5220988362847d27d994ca50f393c08afab20ec770c9de691f3742203f29
font_02_sfnt_off00010228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10228 10708 bytes
SHA-256: e58b66245853906a0368f2825887b6b0d9c333d113b552263ee8ae9d03bd3256