Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9553653aeadea2d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 01:47:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f33ccc3514351d3805d687bfa5bb21fe SHA-1: 5f48982361de31e6211c825011f7a7ddc22b409b SHA-256: 9553653aeadea2d625c92400d6f5dda317b66db98d829c1aa38a66ab1a8ed686
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are part of link farms or hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_URI' further supports this. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the PDF and its embedded URLs strongly suggests it's used as a lure to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=game+bonaru+senki PDF link annotation
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/92687789563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalcareerclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/tenobinilewewuwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://local-minicab.com/survey/userfiles/files/30418367504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonellascarpittadesigner.it/userfiles/files/nitezopifurosupuwosijoveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokohama-model.com/userfiles/files/senakuduvopomipame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsctda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210921_052344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikludava.lt/images/files/zikupuses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldmotorsclub.com/files/file/10759172468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/tawijoxurilazunamoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.beverburcht.nl/upload/files/nasirebeponifumefuvareg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hardlineconstruct.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/vijetowovakezer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/venal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-orlandini.com/userfiles/files/38346295951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netlandschool.cl/files/70417074774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tasuritowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://focalthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/62925601371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsdev.com/userfiles/file/68433620117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zagorjeadventureteam.hr/files/gelejimanejajitiwebukoduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f2a0b6e1b3---97302781889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalcenterstudio.it/userfiles/files/28608182817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/625fa9b5b5a0836427b16a88e7a8ce6b/11772305137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/28865188462.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_off0000eb7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10396 10496 bytes
SHA-256: c36f3da411b868180219a7f0d2f26cc89ee97fdbc3e4d595965bf74b53f916d3
font_02_sfnt_off00011b6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B6D 18040 bytes
SHA-256: 6f19ff4fa21563662e4dd78e5741d9c4c25fc12342a8d52cff262c5258bd8c84