Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91c4db0f4aa200ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:19:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5b6425262987819c92c9579f4b2a8be5 SHA-1: 4a6abb0a7ede0396a3ff1ac4134dbd53a6e12eed SHA-256: 91c4db0f4aa200ac41e6aea23baaf6e4c984b26b3dae6240a718791a389314db
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains that appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the PDF and its embedded links strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution vector, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://ideviceplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/646184217.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tcgardening.com/userfiles/file/2021090512200573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/738598582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/58292001980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av72-reklama.ru/userfiles/file/1631236246981e7e68ff425e519f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/27274388915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ok-poland.com/userfiles/file/75041591932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/84447960126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150006.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210918152454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teakdeck.pl/files/file/83625222710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albertopizzetti.it/userfiles/files/dumipidifunurivasovuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcockeysville.com/uploads/files/60246538231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filippodelvita.com/demo/userfiles/file/30141618233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161314acda66b9---61463693037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gcr.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/jinulefasopelusebukej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikidi.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/xerukilugopen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowa-architekci.pl/userfiles/files/vesevefimefiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/195b96d8024a368affd79e7c678c6707/nuzuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/10569505776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skoleniridicubrno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buronajumidez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpsa.cz/userfiles/file/70100353998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/zukejixogavilora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ud2-140.com/files/31939605446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bewofiriwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=rush+wars+androidPDF 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_off0000c677.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC677 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE89 17184 bytes
SHA-256: 8ffd190b02e58f06a3437bbd16628db68b140be5215e19253445bd349e64a63f
font_02_sfnt_off00010a9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A9E 10300 bytes
SHA-256: bdefc8731eeee48a51f4bb7eee49ee2e089ee65150761efd92928fc2eec837d7