Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7241e8f10b4469a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-10-04 16:49:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: abc474dcc67dc033963da03a5fc58d0d SHA-1: 219ca665df9795912f322b7ad13e4477c24e40b1 SHA-256: 7241e8f10b4469a37b2b481540f818cc07179c13e7fd0718daad78507040a6a5
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was identified as malicious by ClamAV with a critical heuristic firing. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one specifically noted as part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather to host links. The presence of external URIs and the link farm heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier suspicious score 0.3632

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=daily+monounsaturated+fat+intake PDF link annotation
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/87389941564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://descanso.verareyes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67423654540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/27755477312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.travelenvogue.com/userfiles/files/koviral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asken.as/bilder/file/foxawudozipegil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021092007143382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.vn/upload/files/54113343150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecniagua.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/wulaveniniwutakudib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delifarm.com/images/file/gojatabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taechoclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210919_0BD6493B66FA2C71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surinmajestic.com/phya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80610311800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marta-galan.com/files/varios/file/6386604190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subded.org/userfiles/file/tadosap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f0ecc17822---85112470024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neo-net.info/giganet/files/file/53458217453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szemvidito.hu/sfwkr/feltoltesek/Images/Image/dufedewabujojixovagapep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leciv.fr/uploads/FCK_files/file/53593125852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/mudosojonilasawepotaduser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pollackmihalyiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dexufujemiropinolawilokuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmi.nfe.go.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kikisafeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myflora888.com/ck_files/files/nubufabaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/4800080972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebd.su/UFD/7623/files/sotuxokaxepog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f38c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF38C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA3 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 006f12aec75c7eaa78c24fdeba88d4e0e30c173e2f1e7284680281763ca1b246