Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a73a1cf54eefe799…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-10-06 16:29:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 7f8fa79b7a524a4e1d965a8ef8ccad9c SHA-1: a88afd0e4cf93272286ff8214f9cbe715915914f SHA-256: a73a1cf54eefe799bb21bf69311c47d1d6345ef39fc787545a4f4e8cff65b8bd
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains or link farms, indicating a strong intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, suggesting the document is designed to host many links on low-reputation domains. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=future+foundation+spider+man+ps4 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/javewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirindhorn.net/upload/File/jukagovatilusutilumabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/kezoraxuveremojoditorube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomlight.pl/_bloom/file/ramikurasolomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.dubaimotorhomerentals.com/uploaded_images/files/9250479336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineers.info/admin/userfiles/file/fugatofabapodarifutik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/91032865920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/38973437206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea61312c18---22779978930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akekaluck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jajubisigesodesebapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parlagame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wukesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chanty.dacola.com/upload/files/jawaxamixosajatufabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/mapularasenoluwivabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/tumopezasofawoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021090708544159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tygodnikzuzlowy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toweludotoxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kuwaitpolyurethane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fufireduki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210909223539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovelyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mumilamivavogivunedakip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lideregitimpaketleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xokojenukekogotuzefan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satesayap.com/contents/files/14468683744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.com/resimler/files/giputonoxemegevomane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pusazimajovawagi.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_off0000d114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD114 19528 bytes
SHA-256: bad2e99a934a9cd4983a95d3373783df237ea6a1ae959783e7fc0dc51df8df48
font_01_sfnt_off000103d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BF0 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 29bbe14c64c8c77daeaf65ccd521f1ec485add142b3469f3d599a5d48dde0bc2