Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b43805109c81333…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 10:31:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e5ceecb5781cfb83f5d65d0cc0bdc32d SHA-1: cb92410e3ebf94c7ea034da9108fbcf5ffa748a7 SHA-256: 7b43805109c8133368b7ab9ccaf89038fcf8dc9e4abfcec6e39404a322fb511a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to PDF files on potentially disposable or unknown domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating the document is designed to host many links on low-reputation domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristics suggest the PDF is intended to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/51835687930.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/2021913208398680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/59610791027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/bexowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_C11C1BFD4CD5AB77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.net/slicice/file/nawomasitejasuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/75304432160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613655c5cc902---dugujefedesos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fu-ko-property-agency.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/gifakiratuwogevozoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.com/contents/files/gakoxurotobakemibat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/kutojatubakudanavisivebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.info/userfiles/file/61749012963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161420ad1a00a7---5352873176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/45752286201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anyimaker.com/upload/users/files/wiwevugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entrackintl.com/uploads/5241115503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexconsulting.ro/webroot/files/media/9615617265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riccaassociati.eu/userfiles/files/56613756964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/domakonem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/68213681059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hashtag.school/userfiles/file/7253915294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halaljones.com/uploads/files/soweda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=247+iptv+apkPDF 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_off0000ed62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED62 18132 bytes
SHA-256: 58c2165ac89fcf06a0e7115d6a509050b148b8e157dd43ec4c545930a0628bb2
font_01_sfnt_off00011d5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D5F 9884 bytes
SHA-256: bd8e4fc47a2285c33e4f21ec99901dd8d22cc93e78fe7f0aef018a1aab3241fe
font_02_sfnt_off00013361.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13361 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1