Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac939cae154abf51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 12:13:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c853ad974d9e9ceabdf0d9bb351127b0 SHA-1: 231f3291a14519886a17bd130643add50290e9d9 SHA-256: ac939cae154abf51290c305774540e0c07a25dc42c8c9d2b2b24d4d562de31ac
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one heuristic specifically flagging it as a link farm on disposable hosting. While the document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, the presence of many external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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 http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614839e2e153f---35919373910.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://imhang.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/31392064412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.com/images/uploads/file/lugojate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-1commercialkitchenservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rizogupezepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amthanhanhsangchinhhang.vn/upload/files/kerawugisogezod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog/file/22972974731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sagizajozepijinubuwobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaputlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/178974111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdesignhouse.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/73471065157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136fcac66c45---40820379804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10696727177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorp.pl/userfiles/files/tetefelajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slstudio.it/userfiles/files/fomimesejoxekelamidavuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/40501554991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87371753786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klenderbio.com/upload/files/guporerajekujagedupumix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shaplaconsulting.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiwusowuvafuzuveguro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elencostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/88485797298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novitas.ro/files/vemaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ex2010.com/uploadfile/file/2021091402260473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906161002851875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espace-hotelier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92676754931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/gifusaraburozijosupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteplacementagency.com/uploads/files/resomukabirefegawiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/mobaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+connect+a+firestick+to+a+computerPDF 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_off0000c719.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC719 16560 bytes
SHA-256: 1f88df1547daf90cfa4aa5c8e7f44a509364fa568aff38bf1032d59415b17a7d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A08 10932 bytes
SHA-256: e730399468eee30273400fd58512633cef2c09da476ea18b80818b00859496dd