Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bee401350408de5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 14:55:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bc791f0e02872e75a123d86359610d33 SHA-1: 49a9c60874351b1ded8a03723d77b69d52dd2753 SHA-256: bee401350408de5a41eb97c0b621f45c375bdb39da47cf7b1f73f7f068415efe
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to other PDF files, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the PDF and its numerous outbound links strongly suggest it is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely using embedded JavaScript to facilitate redirects or downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://didula.com/img/file/93587606302.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://huangs.tw/uploads/files/202109021707384728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logicamail.it/draft/media/xomala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hpkcahh86tmcr6fqdasqstpn7i/luruzemekifunor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtremefitksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80198518745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/33794108362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontaine-eva.fr/userfiles/files/kojewopufizawos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erodiertechnik-wenzel.de/userfiles/file/kiniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuanx.com/v15/Upload/file/2021911021242125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bls2adirpj4f6ie0j6av5q81a/89656960322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/64275384464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/13470049893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halkapsikoloji.com/userfiles/file/10959302524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/pikanidajufadepowat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54094362928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijaetis.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ludisalajijuxiridufetimum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessnavigator.in/ckeditor/uploads/files/78946710122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0922.sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/mafoxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/wusesobek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazdalkodjokosan.hu/img/userfiles/file/wiwokoxulafamegarat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/73180684874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnndt.com/Images_upload/files/28369936934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=grand+masti+movie+downloadPDF 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_off0000e391.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE391 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA8 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 62eb280f0be208758ac3d27887a5cb4e44aeadaff6464ef6a038dea3962eed0a
font_02_sfnt_off000113ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113EC 17256 bytes
SHA-256: f24a18a9fa37f2eb21fce237888ebae420a93999059ce58b3ea6b3403fadd799