Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72c01a5a9a5aef4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 18:22:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2864ca3818149aefb33febdb3670460d SHA-1: fc6d07315e3a0876dc895f5ff3282760d6867221 SHA-256: 72c01a5a9a5aef4b13c2779c7f31ddf2b1352e3507279734fa488b90c77c75c8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious content. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable domains and configured as a link farm, suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents designed to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://nguyenthelong.net/userfiles/files/13922513267.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hwangtosidae.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/89256770054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.ph/app/webroot/img/files/xorumujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aaaxxion.info/images/file/33053116560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qbuy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/sobubopitowekegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronikarp.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84131342097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.octopus-quatuorvocal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57867835009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vialivonica.eu/userfiles/files/sosin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137890ee4613---77164245292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/jininazudupafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yunglin.com/uploadpic/files/ritewogodowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnewsmd.deca.md/upload/userfiles/files/waxite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearonlaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/41049484429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/lureb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/94111753693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/file/datekapun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appchecar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiruzevome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912185725211308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://underworldgear.com/admin/images/fckImg/file/67506795851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzakocakoglu.com/userfiles/file/92609005518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613928cb0272a---fozeloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vepubosulajawijeluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecosdaliberdade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38812206767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djpress.pl/Image/files/zizilexotukekutemisiron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekkercoon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vikazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=smallest+muscle+in+our+bodyPDF 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_off0000d8e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E5 17408 bytes
SHA-256: fc356be32e6f616f5aeb31a30b51fb2dd5793a51a5b2b5a22acef72c5bf5a1ab
font_01_sfnt_off000105c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C0 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 44bf7e291ad3e26c7895df2fabc1805ba981b4f5a5a9a372d9040030dbd3c476
font_02_sfnt_off00011f29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1