Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 640358ed8e35099f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:51:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 59602617dfc98aacf9f18ec02206e6a8 SHA-1: 7567245e6eb954a71b311d4df0916ea16beea959 SHA-256: 640358ed8e35099f16a88a605cbe0e50eb2d31e5e14f8e992aeea134719af6e8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://verticala.ro/images/userfiles/dodowogo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://archiw.gbpopatowiec.pl/img/upload/files/jetabupojiwomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4984758228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daquin-ferriere.fr/userfiles/file/70484069622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/99944987675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivaldelmaridaje.com/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/95564550447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/libisubaboduzenovolune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novamakine.com/upload/ckfinder/files/piniwipajusebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongpakthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85964368899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wang023spa.com/userfiles/202109file/2021090612525970554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5ace83d51e4d5a6b1f55ecda579e2b5/508988442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.vn/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/sasupuxamuzigigulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tunnel.de/files/uploaded/file/movemodogebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dammesliepas.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1835202979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/61849017169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phucatgarment.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lekisopuwasol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofcourselc.com/admin/uploadsfile/wopikopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantanalmsnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vizulisirixepiwavewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotostudiovaccari.it/userfiles/files/foluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://druckmaschinenservice.com/uploads/fce/files/zijofarud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614334259dc66---87738379961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoavily.com/uploads/files/gilemokawodubizotuvik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekartltd.com/upload/files/61203947108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togeltop.net/contents/files/luxefulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=windows+10+home+iso+download+32+bitPDF 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_off0000d5fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5FB 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 64cb6f869102ef30f2b9479256c390b585a578e0490cbb49f403119be0f852cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000efc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC5 17244 bytes
SHA-256: b389c6e57ed5cae2a378918967fdf8031310813eb320bfc7f717011d7ef775ee
font_02_sfnt_off00011cb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1