Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7382ef3f4287faf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 04:30:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4acd90e15fc0f24cb3530454abed1fbf SHA-1: 91e825813d67844dd8ee41ad1ba6643f04bf28a1 SHA-256: b7382ef3f4287fafb1dbcb408627434445c916e739017ad5e28e0a4ac5d0bab6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected 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 PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination or spread malicious links. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.truckersplantparts.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/donutipob.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ladymamashop.com/uploads/files/202109040329316270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ismet.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95764926929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141a985890b5---8120640910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinaxaraes.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nogafan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiquital.com/documentos/file/jenasuzizenoxalumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merlegdoktor.hu/tmp/30503936563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24854dfb525d20439d2745a2a7b71d8e/vokubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shidoremicrosys.com/media/momuxijifesilago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86265778966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastrodibaglio.it/userfiles/files/resupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/galujiropered.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videlec.be/ressource/file/36981159618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/22453584811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/37544600883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lor-rostov.su/userfiles/files/35094088039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermatologie-francophone.com/userfiles/file/93929431628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph789.com/pinhsuan/files/file/tepimeresujawadib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilot-market.ru/new/files/file/pajepixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilpetrol.olajpark.hu/files/files/lugiruzajiwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gccde.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/27407173454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defi128.phpascal.com/userfiles/files/28341560081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myflora888.com/ck_files/files/35482971512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masihpt2.com/contents/files/biroduzalituribi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/pobokizida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+send+video+from+android+without+losing+qualityPDF 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_off0000b656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB656 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE68 16316 bytes
SHA-256: f75b7aec142b5be48838817e6a06e35e75d906d64d4b0091590320b412107cd2
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E8 11304 bytes
SHA-256: 5a037ecbb21924352c6bade6b816ed937bec8739d494fbd9e480135bc0f8c7fb