Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8985fffb4b45839…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-14 05:07:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 67f16e3434947e8bd8b6fc49912ea203 SHA-1: 3bff81a988f0bece3abe1422eb69b96af278b508 SHA-256: b8985fffb4b45839f78c8bbff23e908f587ea3c522ffc6ab9c306a442a0d924f
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 pattern of using disposable hosting for these links. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the overall detection suggest it's likely a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/31256459091.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29043015156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/userfiles/file/gepatemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33d493fa11a75f7e41d28356eea9e93a/86537629453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/52246773496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sergeisurzhin.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mogaxudizarusidesobutumis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.net/calisma2/files/uploads/68959824236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87949944572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalhousieretreat.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41645570381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uflo.edu.ar/ckfinder/archivos/documentos/zatinijobizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/6765140087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wezoritununekodiximetam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/toxejurasegatesatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsiaoying.com/userfiles/file/46501084753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airzo.net/userData/board/file/73072808192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyeminshop.com/DATA/files/pinuruvukofinijodusadaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/weremazobiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aardbeienfeesten.nl/uploadimages/files/miviwube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klenderbio.com/upload/files/98262940331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/9673250440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/74880600939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongsen.com/img-chamthi/files/sopuxojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peisheng.org/uploads/ckfiles/files/61305349b88d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalltechnik-kutschi.at/85668153417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=home+design+3d+mod+apk+full+versionPDF 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_off0000b0e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0E4 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 5b07017fc5fe528615c60f4a03223d4da91e776ebe582fac2985a16288277794
font_01_sfnt_off0000cac6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e2d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D8 15544 bytes
SHA-256: a04737cd546d7e2356cc9dd46b3857aaaa395459da568273493120ab213bf682