Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 501de50c5b8f2721…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-10-03 04:57:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fd5c6cdae57199d6b153b30be9c5a893 SHA-1: b5cc5014017dae6111aba60551922d15ec5939fa SHA-256: 501de50c5b8f2721f72804096ee796e0ce204c26aa150d52b076914f3946ec35
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains and configured as a link farm, suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://agro-partner.com/Image/files/38864327925.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ccskin.com/geektic/files/zenuduwilaxudisegadopawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurotig.ro/file/18106959425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gajagotour.com/UserFiles/file/21156742109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herbwaterthailand.com/userfiles/files/9393014972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ct-tci.com/cttax/userfiles/files/jefisozasemelubawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingphrases.com/userfiles/files/ruzaxulogefononuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93397068417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-2.de/images/daten/file/dexijafadepotuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42cfa4ewb0a0b3fwh.com/imageupload/files/sunipodasuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mepho.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65093384314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f10fa63619---4947384293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alotercuman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nobisexazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.salac.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32534489090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaunited.com/contents/files/pivanufepovizomiwasij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agmapure.com/upload/files/misomumama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16158787f634ff---kunubujige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talani.nl/userfiles/image/file/libalapin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designsdubaiukfashion.com/userfiles/file/79236014751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustycctv.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muduvejagasevulexawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1633069473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istruttorecinofilo.it/userfiles/file/92876727648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonere.shop/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/74136548038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=shredder+operating+manual+page+9PDF 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_off0000af86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF86 11016 bytes
SHA-256: a519f076f549299e8e7f3202abee81a87ad4e6e527270d925fa0372f788b255c
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8B6 17084 bytes
SHA-256: 7707f8f393b6a201f7183d4fc3cd55a6acb85f024d4a3be772d4fc7ae64f6ecd
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1