Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53e35109c9e2c238…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:30:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 41b9bea1b7754cc803a3a645f14dba9d SHA-1: 7d8635ad46bbc170e62fb7f11e0a160e3002adce SHA-256: 53e35109c9e2c238e378774734c34a62fd2e399f43f8126669a2a61fdfec911b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, suggesting the PDF is designed to redirect users through multiple low-reputation sites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point to a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tivimate+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/gujejamumujeregejazub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyliveconstruction.com/ci/userfiles/files/17862731622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkconline.com/landmark/ckfinder/userfiles/files/redigesejogafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210917_494E59F2C5A79426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polins.org/public/userfiles/file/kedigiwometuwibop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11jdsrojvvb311plq5v9lhf1i5/tutigoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brushes.tfe-design.dk/userfiles/file/xofozotome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/42709669929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1630486187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137580eabc25---nunapapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vili-al.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/salites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/disiponiwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allier.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xofazidovinakezerulab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domki-kopalino.pl/pliki/wosuwokinasutepejulamunaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slavutich-media.ru/userfiles/file/fifuwofulupotepikebini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alohasafaris.com/files/53390927373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/zupuremagakinomogomagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacaune.hu/userfiles/file/47376662662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/wexiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxlinder.com/admin/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55212451968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenorm.com/files/files/50357540182.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_off0000b4c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4C1 14828 bytes
SHA-256: e2382401a552e796f17481b5c41fc8e63a076cd43fb4cea7ffefff159665b554
font_01_sfnt_off0000da58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA58 10332 bytes
SHA-256: b8666e20959eefd1723b64bd7d57280b7d3dfb5f163fc9ff7fe5087bac152ea2
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1