Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b50a213678124744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 18:58:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 8d5602b3455031bbf76bca3a40e1b518 SHA-1: 0a5b80fb977a34ecbcd6ecce1a2d98eb1cf7148b SHA-256: b50a213678124744e4e65d3614c0e9fe0ee2641b55f3bbde470f258b8c96a976
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 numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files, suggesting a link farm or distribution network. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for a large number of links, often associated with SEO abuse or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the overall detection suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://hainutedecopii.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96331169981.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/56700146395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrad.ch/modules/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fidukaxoxodegemeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuabenhxuongkhop24h.com/images/files/zipagafolabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/17630472025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tensoinox.com/userfiles/files/jamituwakimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacionalequipamentos.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/xerigazolanaresen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/76573764539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bjvgld70dq93ms8ecvnsn9an9/xonokog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://police8coop.com/UserFiles/file/sejunejavebofikesis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialgarden.ro/userfiles/file/22071501548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amgaa.org/temp/files/mujuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhtoangalaxyhotel.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/89602138738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluvioneschicamocha.sinecsas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59430974648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floridare.ru/app/webroot/img/uploads/file/550701_jobewigufozezofanizudap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lifixufotum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prograsifkalip.com/files/13302131659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/bikiriwudugumuvepezusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/93742442889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs/files/kapisozip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chothuethietbi.info/img/files/vibemiraxafirewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=neon+genesis+evangelion+2.0PDF 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_off0000bdea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDEA 19488 bytes
SHA-256: f21a69fbf996ee6e9bf0658c6ff0aeb4eded3ee8310bbb272b102d2309b472e5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10900 10436 bytes
SHA-256: ca39d06854e54ebc6a85d4796109a5fd66e5113a9a984cdac2381edf27bb40b0