Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 941c34cff2876ad0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 15:17:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 89d05c3aed8c1af7740486e7c7b72ab2 SHA-1: b883d5d45f8936e11b8806132b47a1685435cd71 SHA-256: 941c34cff2876ad0251f961e2683a2d4d1d0742ab1450814f6babc3e2d58bbe0
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or redirection strategy. Heuristics and ClamAV detection confirm its malicious nature, specifically flagging it as phishing or a trojan. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of embedded URLs and the link farm behavior suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bhagavad+gita+chapter+1+kuldeep+pai PDF link annotation
    • https://cian.hr/userfiles/file/52818389842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honda-vo.com/upload/file/zikutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smelawservice.com/file_media/file_image/file/ropalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/mekemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/78763896701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lixupeng.com/uploads/files/24063462949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mathcountsoutreach.org/userfiles/file/mekewamasuxolefopamawoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondrygoods.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/82281273795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteplacementagency.com/uploads/files/sezogewotezejoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thingstodobahrain.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pimolutitela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfbc34051375aeef7db345d13fbdd69c/47784321419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67001169113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tezatulupedisufifumobopaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/51335690506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abdd853978793e7fdf5d24b524f0b7f5/jesapedugebopixagez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/xadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askaudit.ru/price/47938975411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/74956061498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/redidawojesovikuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaemsp.org/upload/editor/file/miwajigumusesarufenidej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swapnauraan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95556321706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vipbeachhouse.com/uploads/editor/file/rinisugaludazena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecowaytechnologies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77137984720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c41f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC41F 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 057c1cb61d54a4f6fdb698045f9b89741395598498acb97f37e20c8e3026e47c
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FC 16428 bytes
SHA-256: 0cb3799e224f62a536139dc3c466d8fa4349c2237de14459f32d16caf1593cee