Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87df8ecb010975ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-10-09 22:18:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: f578d1d258b427c969c59be578497647 SHA-1: 80d14063d793ebd28510e163ad001e0591408544 SHA-256: 87df8ecb010975ac712e565af14ecd856143095e3631e49a2bf9c1ef65bf9a56
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as link farms, a common tactic for distributing phishing content or malware. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://creativecoms.net/userfiles/file/40115138119.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ipcmanpower.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/sisedisotaruvukonubasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615200e79b92e---9715562220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daejonggyoyc.com/userfiles/file/20210927064201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://achilleferolla.it/userfiles/files/ronukemilejajifadabud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonvvama.net/filespath/files/20211006110346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imosa.asia/uploads/files/202109130521432989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aejmo0alc.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/regepimuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holycrosshealthcare.com/userfiles/files/48055806715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianspringhomes.net/userfiles/files/66338620353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-vostok.ru/userfiles/file/lunipekisafaganesumexejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimcert.net/E/file/57033178888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/83581457712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///67806990174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/75476336880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budaors.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/55536652042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpe-el.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19371338605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuyu.010bi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vekewovizot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rizecanreklam.com/images/file/zerenis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getem.pl/files/file/71459740429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vallovin.it/userfiles/files/menovojafedizugovelovefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetjoget.com/contents/files/68932485345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/36076147163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=middletown+houses+for+salePDF 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_off0000d713.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD713 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2A 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 979e0e47aefea4890b9f731ed62bd3dbe2679460c75bb687da5177e84b19b8d7
font_02_sfnt_off00010773.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10773 18512 bytes
SHA-256: 0514434e3e039f3b4200f4ad0d0130e41ca55dbe734d710eb88e5e10cb2dc26a