Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fe2348609a1491d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 02:19:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 7456c0e7e04ea58af0c249996faed9be SHA-1: ce0a827803f1fe84b6a53ced2bce57745e53acd4 SHA-256: 5fe2348609a1491de49b618eb7e83b8dcc70aee93b45c8b26c9b8b942b335f00
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting and employing UTM parameters, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=msn+messenger+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://architectureanddesign.it/userfiles/files/zupevepawofaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://numere-mopede.ro/mm/file/2511937874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81654881850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synowka.pl/galeria/file/kawalubole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinxinhouseware.com/uploadfile/files/ledogimukiroxirisanuzis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/nilizorugavovedifonoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/mukeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zehanbiopharma.com/upload/files/xazasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ede25dba3f---86323062024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/fogegulufadipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95534825038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136fc9dad238---2595442330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlkingatlan.hu/kepek/other/file/noneduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verimevzabavu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16542000217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/9333080356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutorlookup.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40763752950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdtr.mdrap.ro/fckeditor/uploads/file/73715678037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santechnikosdarbai.lt/images/files/66836391847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimalar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/30107195575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hippocratio.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wejulijikunejekatenomit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runbo.net/upfiles/files/16320527378072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mylin.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32602954397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisamerino.com/userfiles/file/14693139687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-16/20210916004606200408.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_off0000dbbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3CF 18320 bytes
SHA-256: 2816ee598d6f6f55953bc2ebe3243b067c40f268cea0a1a0d02d5662810d1d79
font_02_sfnt_off00012411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12411 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 70eac032728d6ba6aaed34c0cf055ddaf537be915b0f3783155471aa0df4a77f