Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54871a16e10c191a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 08:25:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 67753462979868d1c5f70554a5b0c1e5 SHA-1: 224d2a9c372fe55f9bcca133230a9a294d108b5a SHA-256: 54871a16e10c191a367969474adbdc956bddebd7296ca0c5e448197fc1a6e427
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on potentially disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination or distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://secretlove.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21863943247.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://interroadholland.nl/userfiles/file/dibisimolizulivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunde-katzen.at/soubory/25706854018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetobox-budapest.hu/uploads/files/19470250272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/50754430956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://successalpha.team/upload/files/61859388567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://egyptlance.com/userfiles/file/92020308542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traitagri-solutions-alternatives.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jalujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27c9fb60614da41492e1dfc0c49c9ccb/30110282845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deleeuwputten.nl/site/data/ws/files/dekijimajisideru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienminhgroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zexurojuliwabanuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67309387679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodzlomu.com/userfiles/file/povebugedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c36729b1b4a387e89f87fb153ad000c3/14398078458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymart.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91284733492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/zobonemuwuridizujof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gizukilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa-billiard.by/images_from_html_editor/file/sopikuden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobardinisrl.com/userfiles/files/28263086837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar.com/contents/files/79065295343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongcohonda.com/userfiles/file/11129197229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/1740688409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huemin.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/85064893512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rarahil.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49863112452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honda-vo.com/upload/file/80059322563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=snaptube+old+version+yellow+downloadPDF 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_off0000b7cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFE6 10964 bytes
SHA-256: e277eafd3cca00bc1f28d3cac2045c3665ec539df85f5a1d75bfff3b9c9ec175
font_02_sfnt_off0000e949.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE949 17852 bytes
SHA-256: 4a71174bfb09d82add50db7a0f9cddd2886dcb733661e67d215e78cdd68d0f6a