Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adb59a24cd6a5ee1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-10-01 02:44:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: b5dc005a25a490846cdaa9772955de7a SHA-1: 41af93b0201be8d6b2707672f1887a921b7e5bbc SHA-256: adb59a24cd6a5ee165395590b710e146a01044b74a0586f5a437d91070601950
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document was flagged by a ML classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of 'utm_term_redirector=True' and a large number of distinct hosts with few links per host further supports its role in a potential phishing or scam operation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://vleek.com/uploads/files/80692080624.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bunny888.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/logadejifudesoselinojeref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/5328743451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoybowlramenandpoke.com/uploads/files/wumuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laznia-radom.pl/userfiles/file/14277612005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/75337115020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56027757342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417a3c26652---jaxerojivozosareporawupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le383.com/uploads/files/refafokoxasufatotidelevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7seapharmtech.com/Uploadfiles/files/91759659488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enerjimakine.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/seluriru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/bukinivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57355329845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventexevent.se/uploads/file/puzakuwamenodonipepud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vatlieutaphu.com/upload/files/48709311692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eatoceanic.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/40372880741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarkamilozkartal.com/userfiles/files/gefunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangmeideyiliao.com/uploadfile/file///2021092401180372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/86938679969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biurod9.pl/public/userfiles/file/76833711127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vilus.cz/userfiles/file/67563906500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aicpwdosaeast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nagukujorirapakixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakotech.at/uploads/ckeditor/files/mobegemiwapejosidenop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/UserFiles/files/vunudevade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=screen+mirroring+with+tv+app+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_off0000b34f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB34F 11020 bytes
SHA-256: c049ea6fb9a622168b8c0d7360d71dacc5467fb6b29ffe43805cc761b53aa773
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e4a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A6 19092 bytes
SHA-256: 7273bb7fb9d4f84f6d050a691ddee7da12b72ce5919c6364a8878ab1c28f67a3