Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a46941a53a6f7928…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-10-09 13:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: d017eab59f8d439700925ee08da95601 SHA-1: cc36ea6a8b4dbb216c3360570a0f2db9db9b996c SHA-256: a46941a53a6f7928d66d59407ccd42e03dcfa536d439007c8d7fd19a8b49a2d2
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous embedded URLs that likely serve as part of a link farm or redirect chain, aiming to obscure the final malicious destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://okinawa4d.com/contents/files/97223700813.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/22443811602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://073741256.com/uploads/files/202109040514345916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://househouse.it/userfiles/files/sazepapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealordhotels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75235179119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93397068417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db530a8187---jopotuxaperilumuxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.com/userfiles/file/69437955704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210927024545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentator.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/rumaxatizevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swhwsolution.it/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/tesivunutesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sudig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/mibamadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnktools-th.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lupek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filippodelvita.com/demo/userfiles/file/22254399966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacjahfg.pl/upload/file/junutupuwerutofefuxatujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robfredo.com/userfiles/file/75166268995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avistravel.activsport.ro/userfiles/file/vaduruvupevab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fe19f4c9f3---72952396772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4x4autok.hu/userfiles/files/tilesab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naim.naparts.com/images/fck/file/39781019725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/wipizuzovutunod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razzledazzleevents.in/userfiles/file/32478405143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://springkasteelhuren.be/userfiles/file/35790799792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=i+have+no+preferencePDF 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_off0000dd85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD85 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 53d6164a5416b35796fabea9dd19dd2416aaae6df112385d48bb74fbc26c81f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF440 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C52 20204 bytes
SHA-256: 81cc3fb35d8de4ef324852237b5cfccdd10c51527ef241a0aa0770d52a75f43b