Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5152626d4870920a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 23:21:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7698b76266a3bbfe1888fca4757a9b15 SHA-1: 0691e9de4d94d9ab9c98e71b64a33f4634b57e63 SHA-256: 5152626d4870920aad760e448e2c161be48361ac3dd53055dd1b19d2d1c4aa9d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic confirms the link farm nature, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination or distribute a payload through multiple redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://kermanrooz.com/img/files/61015142995.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.casasemio.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sovelifebapezos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.hu/files/12518396397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/wasifaxenoxapapivizotefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dampinggame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/75164032032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermatologomiguelgallego.com/miguel/fck/file/vovuzuzubutumodoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/43538836153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiuman-hk.com/images/file/70467882663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szerecsen.hu/editor_up/sunudawuvejomujutub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tele-video.ru/upload/files/10360963254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljjxmining.com/uploadfile/file///2021090315330921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/lixemofifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angem.fr/userfiles/file/97911498242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dallaslandscapedesign.com/media/files/99072907749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/xutel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweepinstyle.com/userfiles/file/21725080107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdtrafficticketlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/90740766289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rekurivifasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rewaqousha.net/userfiles/files/vamipimolaninikegojigaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden-expert.com/userfiles/file/20648851348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuatoyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/guminewugedujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramor.bg/userfiles/file/1307495422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sergiomauri.com/images/file/18719156730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at1-turbo-j3t.com/contents/files/fovurajaledapevumugofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=watch+rupaul%27s+drag+race+uk+season+2+episode+2+online+freePDF 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_off0000b643.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB643 17012 bytes
SHA-256: 10ce6c1339240306e54f393a102fba4102170dd7e8ffa6657907aff2f9b868ca
font_01_sfnt_off0000e254.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE254 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 8be5334ee60c04665a9265a316e7a3986476dae4767a1a1e527c30b0266fcd78
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1