Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c51269a5659bef54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-10-01 12:34:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 892e7d6126f9c75e26243537a6a58740 SHA-1: 543074a7f7913d2216e02a9ace0e05ea0af0f447 SHA-256: c51269a5659bef54d5ab77db796f179e748a342cc20b1550b2443fd46ed8a387
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, suggesting the PDF's purpose is to host a large number of redirects. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the link farm nature of the document strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cash+party+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://pdww.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lezeresuzetufemabenot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godahoian.com/app/webroot/upload/files/vuvaxefepapelij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merklink.nl/site/data/ws/files/58439518249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coverybox.box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sidiletimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f1b38d2cc9c707e1e995a5a8dd31378/72821529930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/konuzawadejajixuzavot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-providence-ehpad.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bowosevebaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pyroglobal.sk/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/54390190301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonelektro.hu/files/file/bijafasesesuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmi.lu/userfiles/files/86347559028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motovelo-nmsk.ru/userfiles/file/86850191072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1000families.eu/userfiles/file/97049348586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconfam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47093332899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/kotadakumobomuseni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospelpour100voix.com/fichiers/newsletter/file/73455072565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f42d818d53---44726429122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/zatasutapiwomefizadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szamosiszerviz.hu/feltoltott/files/taxugawabowaxopetazale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gafotadirozirol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourbuilding.ru/userfiles/files/wipinumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thinhhoanggia.vn/Images_upload/files/noropowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spodne-pradlo-2bpoint.sk/UserFiles/File/femexapotojulilubajelet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/74795650347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.vn/uploads/files/64921475527.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_off0000b0fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0FD 10092 bytes
SHA-256: 288d611deaf2124e9e3cd62fdee4416849d20259643a728753c8a6da3dad0331
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7AE 16348 bytes
SHA-256: 312551db19711f8e06747c7bc8ac808413ef4911d3d12969d2d39e42abfe6c40
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1