Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4d0b72a9a639795…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:09:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c15b6c3a1ed1241ca5156529358a4b47 SHA-1: f6cd0ed11b1d70a87e8c8e9d50c8f8392c636482 SHA-256: c4d0b72a9a639795b6d008917f96379103d62e7aae7f3316d620e25b5cd8cb87
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are likely part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to distribute malicious content through a large number of low-reputation domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure itself likely facilitates the redirection to these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://superpart.com/files/91712159962.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gimnazjum-krasiczyn.pl/img/userfiles/file/75488588090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huh.hu/UserFiles/File/xobon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://literie-depot.fr/UserFiles/file/pupofoxuruvigowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noticiascgnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vukevamezutegikibarur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abyss.sk/userfiles/file/fisuvofepanorebibezugema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylpcl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14467882968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85068904929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/75991802119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3065217291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlitalia.com/userfiles/files/77350245678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/tasedas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hospitalityroyal.com/upload_files/file/lenajotumuzuverukapugegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trongtinpc.com/luutru/files/sotumunitusubakediwuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11711440073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/63407606850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mictrogiang.com/userfiles/files/99344776202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riccaassociati.eu/userfiles/files/pifotovofagirixijetojiriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/8229847238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379754df3bc---16357538555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbancollab.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/36582220616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esvigo.com/upload/files/lawozar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shipgo17.com/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xegezekojokofebapagasazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adamslakeband.org/userfiles/file/15230803479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=brawlhalla+apk+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_off0000d593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD593 17792 bytes
SHA-256: 17c6de79a518107424c26987097b3c053b28afdd0f91e3e2bc308d92d10a0308
font_01_sfnt_off0001031f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1031F 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 0e05deb9a652a7a29a2d714670eb7a55daa072a12f7aa663c75f05733bcd327c
font_02_sfnt_off00011a06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1