Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4f5f5caf3c3eb48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 02:52:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 951cdafaf467bec4aac246702038f469 SHA-1: 8b81d3b7ab94ec223545ebdc76848d5cb835a339 SHA-256: c4f5f5caf3c3eb4813558b50584e40bcd77a1bfca701415adce90f9055c7b516
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggests a phishing or scam attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the document is designed to host many links on potentially untrusted sites. The primary lure appears to be a link related to downloading a game, likely a pretext for delivering malware or conducting a phishing operation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaxagijajugeva.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/siguvufogunonapewufemizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieta-plus.pl/userfiles/file/94533932309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qishuochem.com/siicea/userfiles/file/nolub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://free-note.kr/files/fckeditor/file/1984293052613668ef263b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsitecomvn.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/32740352971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/64803876297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.premiumimport.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ligubewufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7979a86b8263be5afef465658f0fcc0f/xajiwilolufebukisajugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://concertwristband.com/resimler/files/vagovaboxurolivikunozuwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photonics-science.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mikinutekerosimoxomazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/82845594255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekobonner.de/userfiles/file/41948200630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckpak.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/diboniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/28408250164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurhijau.com/contents/files/84277684795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuwasinanolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdudyogtechnologies.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puwojovokalowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arrhythmiaclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210904180112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://one9five.com/userfiles/files/xusikawavegeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyo-sanritsu.com/userfiles/file/xibujeraxarozavaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcucaytrong.com/images/files/sefibegatimogavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hennel.hu/sources/elemek/file/zotunobazuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phnews.ro/files/file/faterepojupasabevaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=download+dream+league+soccer+2020+for+androidPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off0000de92.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xDE92 16380 bytes
SHA-256: 2949b3e3aa28f86a2de13f6f2273363c6edf260d54d3be341f5002bd03087e11
font_00_sfnt_off0000c4a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4A5 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 4580a46e3e4588406d085aa4cf809a888491d1754b750b99f7b60edd8790f33a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f524.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF524 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00010d36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D36 21960 bytes
SHA-256: 71e2583af8632b45342c71e746f80095f6fa51ad2972c879b1a417d589ea2290