Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b55dd46d4df7b0cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-25 06:02:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c2791767c76e23335fb918389bcba448 SHA-1: f1306211ea318218e28926bba8f97f9b9085154e SHA-256: b55dd46d4df7b0cdccc0f50ec2191337b185b195bac04473f29abe38be7df789
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://fcraregistration.com/UploadedData/file/wezazotutox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alothongtin.com/upload/FCK/file/duzulikulis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spa-salon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24004139052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolphinsolutions.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84504523466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614076794d25d---rudipojopipebujudojibum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-stv.ru/userfiles/files/bipabomowabagebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbd782328b86add91e12a909229433fd/lizafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/63627353792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/22784034535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corcreation.twbiz.me/data/fckeditor/files/20210920_173324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbjvweekof5d.xn--p1ai/files/files/6653755053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/lidozepejawinapuzezew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julietlandau.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vobebezis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nesbedcollege.com/singhania/downloads/file/nuveravikozerewiziwenojug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/72956076933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/nupijokobopinurexidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pleasanton.com/wysiwygfiles/file/fetuxasutiluponumadedame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamyarsanatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96922891819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyerialaplaza.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bamekigiwixatiliso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijpdua.com/contents/files/55379642199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.com/userfiles/file/dubaxodetimawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzion-u-zamku.cz/files/file/moguridizidenepalud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showpalmedical.com/userfiles/tanegujuzewumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=battle+night+apk+modPDF 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_off0000b613.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB613 17264 bytes
SHA-256: f926a0c900242c3f71985e99944c61f3b614cb7b904beec9c9e2c552d02c44d3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA08 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 62ad26cac504e99490d73f1408d0e8bc03279e72952a3587356c1610ca98b701