Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aab0e31bfe69cd50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-14 04:25:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: eb205cc96f537cb6ac9622a007e57e04 SHA-1: e3057eefb53bfe4bd199ae519970f8000a102a24 SHA-256: aab0e31bfe69cd500c4a8bd42ac1b8ca1f93d235e41883f8c642f920580b3330
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to PDF files on potentially disposable domains, suggests a link farm or phishing lure. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic specifically indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for SEO-optimized links, likely to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ustunbilgisayar.com/userfiles/files/dudagiloxomajupum.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aapltd.net/userfiles/file/wexomawajibobabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielle-srl.com/userfiles/files/kikaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5012048935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synergytaekwondo.com/click2buy_newp/userfiles/file/59177923943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613258e049d80---fimusonukoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto826.com/uploads/files/torijimimewokilud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/zefili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/pawugogupumepexesizepolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awfiowv.love-mrt.com/upload/files/38098662923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarangroup2.com/contents/files/fulip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ch-yang.com/upload/files/fifufolipodasukadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3f99667b87aa69561c7f4fc952be8ac/wupez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/86385092636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/45938205566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongxoanhdpe.vn/upload/files/41702031311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optometrystaprzemysl.pl/userfiles/file/jejaduduva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-intelli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3325586938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kebaxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimustelecoms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kisufobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/82698642077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukatwebsitesi.kocgrafik.net/upload/files/povatipalobofodivovefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/82831338428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=botim+apk+download+old+versionPDF 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_off0000e2cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2CF 19348 bytes
SHA-256: 930fc22eea2f3308e88cbe99846f85a7946066eaf3e8ab8b47954f0ba271b0b3
font_01_sfnt_off000114f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114F4 10852 bytes
SHA-256: dd2cdef4f73340a11c2f6eddf8cf9bdca58489130bc230aa55305814295b4398
font_02_sfnt_off00012e17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1