Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e3f2003693861fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:18:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 677ea048f6c7f31ac9bd286ea5469c31 SHA-1: 1c699183c82f72621dc86eab99eef9ed12eae9d1 SHA-256: 5e3f2003693861fc7444b13aadfaaa50fb1f7d810ec9d50c046403f881d087fb
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. One heuristic specifically flagged the PDF as a link farm on disposable hosting, and another identified an external URI that, while confirmed benign, is part of a pattern of external links. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/lidowopanuxofonezuredote.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.octopus-quatuorvocal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90615917064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce0jndhpeonvpp4e60ds0h4oh6/nibuxiresimuzotolipug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemaeldeundobjekte.de/uploads/files/bidafekafidowobamanenifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/bibejezuwujet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meuble-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/19411021213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/34816565196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carnavaldemarbella.com/Senegal_5/Content/files/userfiles/file/kikax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coutleelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xuginuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaurrieta.net/USERFILES_JAURRIETA/files/bitibixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nena-artspace.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84590966169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kaxitutexilukowekepoxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.traigiongthuha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64829372042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hon-ro.hu/userfiles/files/xawivukisawigeziza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advairtech.eu/assets/userfiles/file/53347851780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pololanna.com/user_img/files/zoludimonopozitunibuguje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f97b60b098---mamagifekujobere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecogestval.com/userfiles/file/donipigidolivilisejolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trips-in.com/ckupload/files/4407174598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/kajatazamamudafubejet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=new+hack+app+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_off0000b91b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB91B 16316 bytes
SHA-256: 493e917f94edbd9a1839107a40f0664d63d0f220c31f12b928b85161c3636c52
font_01_sfnt_off0000e368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE368 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB7F 10308 bytes
SHA-256: f7099f47e8bf428293239586871412e2aa5bee1f8c59a77ecb648603940726ae