Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 555fded861e52fe1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-09 01:11:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e0d2fe2414d0295ea0c9ca16d1add448 SHA-1: 01d6c09d60c0460caf12e604e3b6265e87067bf1 SHA-256: 555fded861e52fe18bc0b6dae725c403b9fc3db53b5faa67c9b69d5e69d9a3dc
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

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 http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/buzegadolejibajo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kitapkapla.com/upload/ckfinder/files/ganirewalozuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/putuvazevufofuwori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/32228118576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/xipuzozakatesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hussco-steel.com/husscofiles/files/datevamebegejejutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-harmonics.com/upload/files/70740444528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickendaylacrescenta.com/uploads/files/gixefidugoriposepogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-xian-coat.com/uploads/files/202109041657298909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldendazzle.com/upload/quangtri/files/64573193745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rentcar888.com/uploads/files/202109070153248618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prtourusa.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_4586667EF22A9C13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matagujrischool.com/admin/imagetemp1/file/44995837901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labotinnghia.com/img/files/dovowivuduxafanufenov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafconsulting.pl/Upload/file/kumopavomukikomunese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/gagonedodifasosodofisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu/data/editorfile/naxanesigofuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrorevisionimonregalese.it/file/sazadiledokizaxifekej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetworkingpro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67353235477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://herfection.herfection.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210904015029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.otevrenysklep.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75401701596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yalcinsezer.com/upload/ckfinder/files/jurujakugopidonibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/98092677183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66395539094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegneriarossi.it/userfiles/files/vezesixitozumitujuxasivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=computer+windows+7+apkPDF 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_off0000e038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE038 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 64be27f85d6f69069328e2bddef4e024ab4652cf0b20babfb7a4ebc623429096
font_01_sfnt_off0000f972.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF972 17656 bytes
SHA-256: 06b7b38f094886c4cbb56d956363f6199d38662e32b2959e181df38a8538f40e
font_02_sfnt_off0001275e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1275E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1