Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8e483bf9325d1e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.6 KB Created: 2021-09-23 08:10:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f9b2027856ca4257aeea80563f4efa53 SHA-1: b850e8650c6f1bfb4caa40d63ad804e967b484c6 SHA-256: a8e483bf9325d1e7215726b3b45ca9837a9b639773cffbb3c708ca50e739e5bb
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to external sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a strategy to obscure the true destination through redirects. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8532

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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=score+match+cheat+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://sloplast.com/userfiles/files/xekibogojolazamironiniti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsfly.com/uploads/files/noporukafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddu-hk.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76397535614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/wafinoxojifexobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/33566422935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jyapa.com/jhuoyue/uploadfiles/1257545497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-solar.com/webroot/img/files/geturofupirapotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioiulianella.it/userfiles/files/44617377061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a856717f90---67399355076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/52098165837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtowniagrafit.pl/userfiles/file/60727325351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/zefopugozozaduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziripemawesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhuoer.ltd/userfiles/file/fuzejotovuwazaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locum-system.pl/userfiles/file/24248793179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odesignlab.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fetedesipusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stalbeckers.nl/userfiles/image/file/nuseluzosobavijunojiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/1359488226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nulifeus.com/~nulife/userfiles/file/98292588552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapuionoticias.com/ckfinder/files/kevojevoseveto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wajizugodopufenaxoverin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/lumakalatedezidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienanglass.vn/upload/files/lapavotifanune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/99637081702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81601272742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://free-note.kr/files/fckeditor/file/18087778246136bbbadd157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cebb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEBB 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 7d83216cd122e9441f31836b45f002a4886ad73bcc94780b8f90cd029ad492f1