Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c04dda4fd2e43a89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:28:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 79dde0db98b8da169891a3533941640e SHA-1: 180db1cb8500b8755222212f82c3dfd3c71c37be SHA-256: c04dda4fd2e43a891ebf633f61a7b7b4d2e9611d0516151e4f4b1a6e5ca6835f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially malicious 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 tactic to obscure the true destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the detection suggests it's likely a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://blfimmobiliare.com/userfiles/files/16082682569.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuvixelowukimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azstorestudio.com/uploads/files/dozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herfon-machinery.com/images/ckfinder/files/20210916141113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonseri.org/userfiles/files/mutezujenakuvejeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384f3ede80d---49456206983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melnikhouse.com/userfiles/file/rezanabatenufevemifoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ezmoving.com/file/buzoripuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastriklandsbf.se/UserFiles/files/vedonalovekirilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakesandcupcakes.net/userfiles/files/fajovizalisevevifazeneri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangiorgioautoservizi.com/userfiles/files/37900114314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22426149268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicm2015.mist.ac.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94739561959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elistaprezentow.pl/userfiles/file/lekukiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://softwebstar.com/shop/userfiles/file/47751236497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141b554c5815---6670250709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/jixipaxidag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://only-svet.ru/upload/files/ropute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tikatalog.sk/_files/file/vupunikekolagoperewavuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seritour.com/rsm/files/pekatenevef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37037452334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp2wronki.pl/fotki/fotki/file/xedujulutubudiruwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80adpfaaeictf0c6c7i.xn--p1ai/public/file/75793622055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=secondary+3+english+comprehension+practice+pdfPDF 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_off0000d6ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eec3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC3 11428 bytes
SHA-256: 43a3529e24dbef84c12c7ee894e7b7c37b5a15a7c2fa32b590015759f2464c7a
font_02_sfnt_off00010957.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10957 17912 bytes
SHA-256: a6d7f62e7445d3be64509208db4b9f910bd40368470519c517ef08766d668217