Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96407f48101e0ad2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 08:36:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 33ba0253eb58e5ce74b12e6a9b3c533a SHA-1: 9f17b17cc8b2237848e398cb5691696ded189db3 SHA-256: 96407f48101e0ad2d1614b48b2c4abb50ed8d77370a6b9edbb7666df27bfb1bd
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with high confidence. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using many distinct, low-reputation domains for hosting links, further supporting a malicious intent to distribute or phish. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to facilitate the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+sam+basic PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7040962126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210916_061601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/61215760356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d61859fa4e71bd39e6704433be6a597/1982783937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turenafam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4els.ru/uploads/images/files/59588558788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32247d23dec6ccffc76a85e665b77ac1/tebabalopibawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12846886902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkouty.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jarudigurekuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xotozoxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dehaventransportation.com/home/de/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36567814783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimore.vn/webroot/img/files/walanegilakovozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--m1age8bh.xn--p1ai/files/file/2108308400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/86361091296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohsongpharm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pababimulepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/bavifud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refpecsbelvaros.hu/kepek/files/xavojogujijegeparirer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/mitonagexivepek.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_off0000aa43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA43 15308 bytes
SHA-256: b94df655807d141c4188dd8d115baff9e240c44cbddfa836854ed3922a88f97d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0A0 10176 bytes
SHA-256: fc19683464c13e421f890e517ee24f58bada88f79c9dc5b39f9ad7862d1ac1b8
font_02_sfnt_off0000e76f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE76F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1