Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdae878659309bbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-27 04:28:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 15b5e1d600286b319793ca45e0988fac SHA-1: c57a2ed7f145d329a847c90ec91c4d660db71a14 SHA-256: bdae878659309bbba7aaf4c677098dfdae614fc7af85f94eeee34857b05c81aa
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious content. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting and utilizing UTM parameters, strongly suggests a link farm or phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+screenshot+on+galaxy+s2 PDF link annotation
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24953038966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3rproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61087502215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/49383340136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taispacedesign.com/upload/files/3278090870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161356bb79a9dc---59454552576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhhangkhong.com/upload/images/files/55069454817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/14174218056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021090505152673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vongtaytramhuong.vn/upload/files/jebitawaguva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/51481416978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazuma.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gewisifagarinatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingmitrcoffee.com/user_img/files/fogebutegagebasumunutejos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osingenieria.com/images/admin/file/14995478470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idroter.org/userfiles/files/95145880921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimalar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/85039479423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d81b31a6c9---fimikavetezeresinepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.globalnautique.nl/upload/files/vagejubawuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gosselindesign.com/images/from_fckeditor/fichiers/minemuwenaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barbazan-debat.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tisafadapovonevidakubuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romento.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/lipadubifotewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dr.schure.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vidugupiwogujusituj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000aee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c6f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6F8 15204 bytes
SHA-256: 36a2fb423b72534a7a247dc2b2d8efbc727153fd53ad89c73bd625eeb4342b2a
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED0E 10832 bytes
SHA-256: cb7045b6cb7dff1a539fbf4ecb6463e1588621b86dd1f7187421266bac3ebbb0