Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78dc1032b7bf9c51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-09-24 09:50:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 82df20e6f014bf372e0c3b28c5335f54 SHA-1: 91b7351d373407d89895163218a6b1139cbec0e2 SHA-256: 78dc1032b7bf9c51e424ef1d2c6a47d26bb645e7e5c3a4d28d84a419773b49c0
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious domains and are structured as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://goldenlinejsc.com/userfiles/file/jikelezefewis.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tsnpharma.com/upload/files/59184274398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23049335641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stillincontact.com/images/mails/file/jovogebuxaporufudusazob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614736fd8ba38---42242756902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vallovin.it/userfiles/files/10789617581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafasolis.eu/userfiles/files/zifetifapajapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abcelectricalonlineshop.brilliantwebtech.com/userfiles/files/tabisemimixuwunaxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/5849140752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10549270202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/puwesosebokadadotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprenda-atdi.com/uploads/files/wogadujijikefejumapabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/25474927618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/pasevugurikubobili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itcbeautytrainingschool.com/userfiles/file/tewiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://romalasergroup.com/userfiles/files/zirarexolopipozaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2b-intelligence.it/uploads/file/wofetuzexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/wifurojuwupiwowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/paburipizulokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synersys.fr/contenu/file/dobogixufelenokofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skulpt.in/admin/uploads/file/68676507165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/72844901553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80apefbdm9ah5g.xn--p1ai/userfiles/rejasofivifodigen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satnamunicipalcorporation.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46683155137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=star+wars+the+last+jedi+123moviesPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d957.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD957 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f16e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16E 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 3b52a6eb96c55166101e208176d55ee6ce06af322762a5f20241da4661fc3c0c
font_02_sfnt_off00010b71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B71 16616 bytes
SHA-256: 06f1d5f5a9083a80364da0885936c8ddb2848b41a67694407b5e75bff462a068
font_03_sfnt_off000122b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122B4 17680 bytes
SHA-256: 9103e72b51eaafe1968c3c93179b9f52265d7b64362e68f055eeaed1e30ad19f