Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52ca14a4daaa0af7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 12:43:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a0acc035b44205a4906e1a83ee14dd7f SHA-1: 1df43777d1d019ca077e7c33a9fd4d76fd1c4c2a SHA-256: 52ca14a4daaa0af7459be1b8c904eb3c692f8f80d1c1dbe7a32b8d92f8291ff2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, with one specifically identified as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attack pattern involving redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apkhub+1.17+minecraft PDF link annotation
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/68938151414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/41581899762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungafilm.com/dorceiys/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92230489143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/55620720264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d4f275126---lasifanatafabowobowogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapientgenerator.ru/files/userfiles/files/21578724892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/74605700685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alubiasdetolosa.com/files/galeria/files/56554197316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuonghieutoancau.vn/uploads/files/71951889462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auditorescr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pugejumisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-songshi.com/admin/upimg/file///losadotejusalulun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/walojavonerik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/guvevugorezizerowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/3415464186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/nadimazipasajifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614234ab6e42d---44267055907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-paca.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/19438757204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com/fck_files/file/64700467965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actsonics.com/uploads/files/202109150719273320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodanang.com/uploads/image/files/pawekivetiwasojoxudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fs-select.com/images/blog/file/45199475095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn-----6kcaheblih5ab0a6afqbzoqe.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kojolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/65996227448.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_off0000efff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010811.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10811 17376 bytes
SHA-256: cbbd0a29a1d870a1520cb5ec5ace153f1cbcf57ea0d43bee84f7f5c9069a467d
font_02_sfnt_off00013541.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13541 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 9bda77a33a38729719423855db693be73602404614bc1fd7968259ff8cc521f5