Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c01ba489d6145bee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 08:19:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 354c6eb48baffbbe65f94c3713e7543a SHA-1: 17460456c849488ade376f58432c821421e70ef0 SHA-256: c01ba489d6145bee99547f2c814c8fd77365458af67fd67397eb1abd922f0bdc
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains associated with link farms or disposable hosting, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=descriptive+words+that+start+with+h+for+a+person PDF link annotation
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sawogenewadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410d3a1b709---tumadujevisivone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbellevuepalermo.com/userfiles/files/kamavuvese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--nmqu14inmf.com/upload/files/71444074893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paglialonga.it/userfiles/files/58429281603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://univerosg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xudajogopexivulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63673716825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/11036892182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surestegc.org/documentos/file/jofazawuvexovuxufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isemya.by/modules/ariol/static/ariol/ckfinder/files/35969519711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stilna-ya.com/_userfiles/file/71856393592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/rujoxojolebulepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/1006492798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjxbw.cn/userfiles/file/tibateg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/luwixomefifimoboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benedictinoselrosal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50975863510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141f41b41de9---fexojofevasulibivenutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akpanlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayphotocopydogia.com/upload/files/jomiduwisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpwlawpa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/81565432863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cp-tournament.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91660149116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/nebawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birutelorasin.com/contents/files/firolipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erodiertechnik-wenzel.de/userfiles/file/sefibasezusiwopezaporiruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/59080385958.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_off0000da11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF228 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 616edbfd16b5abf90edd487d6e89cdc60b3dd2baab3ac7ba6e91b4062ac23fb9
font_02_sfnt_off00010b28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B28 16012 bytes
SHA-256: 568b8e006d4695bff28c75b3c7741ed1308f1128a512475fb20f8b573ad1d851