Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5169ce3a82430cda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 15:13:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 628629f5964b5155a9c5a58fc2dace8c SHA-1: e2973f6b3a2dc7891bfde76d1a7865908745bcbd SHA-256: 5169ce3a82430cda6d9ea2897dcdcba7fd595c80d8c8b6cbc32d0e59b443c38a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV specifically identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous external URIs, including one that explicitly mentions 'download app super vpn', strongly suggests a phishing or social engineering attempt to trick users into downloading malware. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document designed for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+app+super+vpn PDF link annotation
    • http://www.drivingschool-brno.cz/files/files/mavofude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/bamavugepevixugenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongguohuachun.com/d/files/vurabonufumokut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horgaszvelem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juvufili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b53315eaf---11884863765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f3623f1d9d---49609650790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gerarovusem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/tixarumara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebymtm.com/upload/files/97307072132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/piderixemosavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usgcambodia.com/userfiles/file/28169005373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maurovalleferroarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/76667055277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bagstyle.uz/images/file/gisejudejibab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radecznica.pl/userfiles/file/jojomodolunopuzizezavozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odessawa.com/userfiles/file/poderoxarav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estatecambodia.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/xofikewowofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarathi.live/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/batir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cctechlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zirenexiwowivurukolulol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aparcaderoshaddaichile.cl/uploads/images/files/22188505051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esenkardeslerinsaat.com/resimlerfiles/99804321156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fge-service.com/userfiles/file/xokojibas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/55208435440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lollanaclinic.com/image/upload/File/wamivaxutorixetopesaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudaff.com/pics/file/77930901909.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_off0000e4ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4AD 10448 bytes
SHA-256: e6dfebbb34f5a055630869bd6e54648ac7150efeed6d302b4435775e8e008a27
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC8D 18404 bytes
SHA-256: 05f93adb658a8f06a62aafe7fbe79868df16dae234b73b0c1dcbb8776a974cd2
font_02_sfnt_off00012ba1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BA1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1