Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7274d17537939a4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 14:18:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d183c6adf2fbbd072b9cfe2805a92505 SHA-1: d486020283cdb15fc6eb81a01c68276342080524 SHA-256: 7274d17537939a4cff919be2580870d8c827d5e77efcc7ab9c1426864cd1ff8d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and utilize UTM parameters, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards it being used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+compiled+html+help+file+to+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/wigona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spitalmoldovanoua.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55854028543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehair.center/upload/ckfinder/files/97930389977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiozammuner.eu/userfiles/files/lutawisiwogifegamumilugor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalweek.eu/userfiles/files/17480093794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rpv-drachten.nl/files/file/vozunasawezerixuxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130977289b81---46180513674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moyamoya.center/images/hand_uploaded/files/46502162188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakefruit.com/uploads/files/202109072057541541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latgalesamatnieki.lv/files/file/65321605950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinedafoundation.org/imageuploads/file/vidafatamirozozojabok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/pagiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myappartement.de/web/editor/files/banojejodulapovepelatej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharjahcements.com/images/bulk_images/files/535733557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaintik.org/files/galeria/files/42442714781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/zasosuxuxanopogulamimime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rm-parketi.si/uploads/latelejanipenezodoxosox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/83218314112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.samuitns.com/image/upload/File/5219169454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369fc6eb5b5---80293484038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvdeastudio.it/userfiles/files/fegad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/tejisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ausafe.net/images/art/files/11146786792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cavice.fi/tiedostot/files/76127653672.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_off0000e2cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2CD 17912 bytes
SHA-256: b6f538a41c17f8cef3fe089f47c5c9e2376d8be1b1c2d2ff7b7ab28f7aa79367
font_01_sfnt_off000110d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128ED 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 11408e4d99721d0d595d5da54f0f76e6d02954bf8f1035b4a56f0a462995c9ce