Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5fee49bd7318584…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 14:28:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 02bf346d85facbafe2a7b27e68924983 SHA-1: f011db2b62db13bdab99ba3c8fd55847066f86ed SHA-256: a5fee49bd73185841aa0ec1b91d7107dd0215a38be37657862b627e6fb7c5419
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating an attempt to obscure malicious links. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://onecre.com/images/content/files/pakimur.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trivio.it/userfiles/files/90465479349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/31933958430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetyassessmentsolutions.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tefirarasaworelixef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijfbacknumber.com/editor_up/fopofazuweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verandapattaya.com/userfiles/files/remadaruzezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/faroki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhosting4.net/media/file/rodugegepize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ficfart.org/userfiles/file/vemoxujadilaluso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baove24h.org/upload/files/turikonofanujefevumik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/bagese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17322141553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpghollywood.com/userfiles/files/vavinavonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/18688624064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaders-adv.net/userfiles/file/mivigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo-yachts.de/res/wysiwyg/file/91104257772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casalindasbakery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97955474821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcvperu.org/data/fcvperu/userfiles/file/76534956112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaperugia.fr/userfiles/file/5910102535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhtractor.com/d/files/kuxuzotezal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lev-steklo.ru/userfiles/file/vuzuzidilidepasezivelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kapefashion.com/files/files/7351938952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swatimishra.in/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/99637532835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ac6ebf28df82b8de515e88dd22f0691/fobogatinaxadesodomuwesod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=talking+tom+cat+game+downloadPDF 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_off0000d848.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD848 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 03520aac5ab188181c87f2f372effbcbb8d28319f898842acde7f6562c98abec
font_01_sfnt_off0000f048.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF048 18764 bytes
SHA-256: 3f49f27de13923ef731058495b96e8a7cb9f56c8c629b1fb82674d779054da9d
font_02_sfnt_off00012188.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12188 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1