Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a13d86878c9e3c56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 15:11:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 83ba04521d868cbab7f1568a96911d75 SHA-1: 58f811ab4055cf8ca842b8d55776edf6dfe2c215 SHA-256: a13d86878c9e3c567246e7596869f67a9ebc889df0c46108f0ba4b76a67b67d6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, and is flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a link farm structure designed to obscure the true destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URIs and the overall structure suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://aymexco.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mogozafuturagime.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hoangvan.vn/wp-content/uploads/files/50986852270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/dakowutekozabukavuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolutionchonburi.com/userfiles/files/pevim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijestr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lenubepubuwuzolujapikubam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewgroupresort.com/upload/files/zabadelav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctm.it/userfiles/file/85682965715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-baby-clothes.com/d/files/44971433563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/kaxirexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecrivains-consult.fr/easyonline/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7182956726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantipplaza.com/userfiles/file/15698902799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/3150061538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgssu.com/upfolder/e/files/20210904025440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irastuff.com/admin/ckfinder/uploads/files/23455376642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368cc99bbf2---zuzizavanapowogodezak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonmathunglan.vn/upload/files/rafubapekop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-15/20210915231651680853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141321547aa0---8769748184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seger.cz/userfiles/file/masubeninovutiguto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/20219510113048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.e-oswiata.olesnica.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toxinesinomut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3449486656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021090416350073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=roblox+mod+menu+mobile+2021PDF 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_off0000bcfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d511.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD511 10564 bytes
SHA-256: bd0f4ff751327e392717166d9d5be4b098885135b5a9f05fd97a2a6777ad5313
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED1C 16668 bytes
SHA-256: 5c7b886a308d8528bd8c960c219fa90ced8e531fb19759f5118128797999ad94