Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a50a9cabbca9f12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:20:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7c07cd076b3f3d6b2d924b5ea0e5850a SHA-1: e2e7c6d83fdefc8458d2090666821735add971bb SHA-256: 5a50a9cabbca9f12784069a92b4b6c789710707bd75e1f7be0e577a96cefc4af
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple embedded URLs point to disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, further supporting a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://quangcaowebsite.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/93149814903.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tech-in.info/bramy/userfiles/file/27957592138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tt-ural.su/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xobubilijas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenxuanhuong.com/upload/files/matipuleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/tumukegivekuzimepebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://membranekeyboard.pl/_data/file/depadezukikafevowovuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlangkhan.com/upload/userfiles/files/77080854785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackinthegym.com/uploads/files/202109090008588264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416d65e572f---43066234033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nobody-films.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/13084363061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rtgh5jd4rocrig6c02k9di6le3/59334209959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websteravelandscaping.com/editorData/file/muwepolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tele-video.ru/upload/files/gituvobopamikujifoxonom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facyt.com.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vemesuvinejize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suphammamnon.org/uploads/files/87388036991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jeriwotazugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17547220645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiredriver.com/uploads/assets/files/nalimokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/fiseni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandirent-new.ru/uploads/assets/file/87962922240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mclarenquartz.in/ci/userfiles/files/vojabasafimilifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/patesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/vilijodewodotal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/50940284312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boyanbolyarski.com/userfiles/file/7417760704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=losing+my+virginity+pdfPDF 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_off0000d485.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD485 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC97 17840 bytes
SHA-256: d97c3ca26d644ebfbdd00cfdf000188e80df9d4ff43a7fd151a2c5d3ce0711c6
font_02_sfnt_off00011b1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B1F 10640 bytes
SHA-256: c3d8230a36e4ae2d8335344c9cbe9bd1205a0711eb2e2bab753429bf663ba34b