Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb15039a8cdf659d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-10-02 15:04:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 0b142f62bb4d9d82e27bdb232f4a6dd8 SHA-1: a334f19b2d67faa32a2bfd8b7c2c8ec93f312ad1 SHA-256: bb15039a8cdf659d6c09fabbb8983d698d3c73092e4147e2118625355c926e93
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files, suggesting it functions as a link farm or a distribution point for further malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://argumentua.com/i/file/34161865274.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop/contents/miduxeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/35948035295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://launensia.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jokokodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianmailbox.com/assets/images/userfiles/files/83317449910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stop-remont.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42673889701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/667emagi75lotrbpt1u7c2v401/xusezuwaruzoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlonnuri.org/UpLoadImage/editer/files/dedivuterekumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/855613008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/40910003902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infas.cz/images/wiswig/file/robuzosogonogegifokeruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://women-for-marriage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tibedimezoraviva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photou.cc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22796546181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonghuichem.com/upload/files/jebuxuxonokamavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/mepare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.com/webroot/img/files/duwapulomiwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18786245435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecableapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/29873043059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u2fo36qb81k4mgokvrop06tsv1/potugujatazujide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiospazioambiente.it/userfiles/files/timetemelez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrikando.com/cmsimple/images/file/38861308137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=waters+edge+guest+housePDF 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_off0000ad80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC597 10376 bytes
SHA-256: a3c4a1ffeeeba2969fb49fadc4e400bd43b7657de38e519b8dea828c58334b82
font_02_sfnt_off0000dd0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD0B 16040 bytes
SHA-256: cb591d3bd213ec7d9473f9b768228ff15810361e8bb3a00932cdedb36dee2f19