Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 538835673cd60af2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 18:22:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7a9e68c9582560d66a273890c6eafdf8 SHA-1: 46bd9f0656d1570df99b74b937f7938b8dccbd32 SHA-256: 538835673cd60af23a76c162481e36db93c3f498273dac17ddb5822161e8ae45
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating it functions as a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://galedo.cz/www/data/cms_files/files/sedobusutuzanupevuxapo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://molecult.metallo-tests.ch/sites/web/upload/files/gulasejulunawomege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nano-vip.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zizajigup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtestbd.com/assets/uploads/files/doxejinazuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4geso4tkfnjk89bd9iu258r0up/24789619181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autopsrus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56945558021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/runaxevon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://helicopterleasingservices.com/userfiles/files/52943125487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.habitat-morvan.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wijalidomikazizub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soskuwait.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/5866363018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blondel-bois.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kopemosuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctorchina168.com/upload/files/kulaxofuvidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carsonpokebar.com/uploads/files/78439817490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/37389257646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/sozomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stonebuild.bg/f/uploads/files/438952620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/monura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/goxowijoduvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curvesncontours.com/userfiles/file/pezitulagadipejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atreve.eu/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/82443857541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamcohoaian.com/webroot/img/files/20108556807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.net/userfiles/file/sebenegararover.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsraccountants.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/kubiwumetizilipof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_DDB946A28ABD0276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowa-architekci.pl/userfiles/files/4768485651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playworkspartnership.ca/sites/default/files/file/40294730834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=minion+rush+mod+apk+unlimited+everything+latest+versionPDF 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_off0000b623.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB623 15776 bytes
SHA-256: 93e58b348bf6eb3417ff53c5c4952b623a26d7325624ef25214eb59fc6bdc6a2
font_01_sfnt_off0000de26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f63d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF63D 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 3dfebeaef097d0da08d1af6a11c4ae00a2f2c15631ab68dc45e7e1dba1fe5ed2