Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6525f22a18520412…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-11 19:04:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5892bd22bb63be75246295636a76ab1d SHA-1: 373ba0a82907f5b69314aeace6031110a9bb7b49 SHA-256: 6525f22a1852041207fe17f88d8ec22ddfbeee46ac9b29936630955c8fc73ec8
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. One high-severity heuristic specifically points to a PDF link to an algorithmically-generated URL, which is a common tactic for distributing malicious payloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external links and the overall heuristic profile strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=song+lyrics+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://habibitoursegypt.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13561216183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmg.lv/img/uploads/files/vetokuworidez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/tevosavebadugewufurosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pibar.tw/uploads/files/202109021418434005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qqwandai.com/uploadfile/file/foxizedagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioscapindandrea.it/userfiles/files/kijavatipegijemiguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138dbe976635---vefogiwifagododigak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvpeds.com/upload/contents/file/warejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/kejopidejagatowesedub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ea67b4a5cf9a8e619bf0f097124de74/57002959919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugerwafers.com/demo/ruger/beta/userfiles/files/ritojegofaxazezidori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhvuongthuphap.com/upload/ck/files/gopegazegidiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78925266435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/53892555644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilot-nav.socksnbows.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dujumaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doina.md/fckeditorfiles/file/xabiresevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/lolawizevazojowugojugirib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslatalaia.com/userfiles/file/zimonerowubinuluxewavebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yomamasushitogo.com/uploads/files/32139332494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inunekocp.jp/mailmagazine/upload/files/72472410564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phuketvillarentalandservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daxuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denprokhorov.ru/images/file/dutusatejotabezudisigabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzmanwebci.com/calisma2/files/uploads/22502930389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpstart.mobi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93542836171.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_off0000b79a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB79A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB1 10600 bytes
SHA-256: c7ec5c0ec2c5ad4af29665e62fad4d7cfc3892185b9daf66f81ffa48df843726
font_02_sfnt_off0000e7fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FD 17056 bytes
SHA-256: 95a12dc73b82baa2086b9b1f24d6cb2ae83968b23711fc6bfcd045fc818bfbed