Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c82faf941c21cda9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-25 06:10:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 131948e1d419f02a82664c012e33de26 SHA-1: 2439c0e2738b781e46f10d5f4b913dd0f78ec674 SHA-256: c82faf941c21cda9b738396cf060dae4aeeb7656093a5bcf81ae5e194a303647
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with many pointing to disposable or suspicious domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9962

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://testpensija.bankai.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lodanidizudobi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://exosushi.com/uploads/files/jowuwipibokumimalajuwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francescasciortino.it/userfiles/files/54564156356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giovanninociti.com/userfiles/files/zirinepazubir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148785d65f0f---50119548521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flathead.herosuite.com/userfiles/file/41322321585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nffcd.org/userfiles/files/lemuvixavorivakijutiwago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d25f542fb8---gilawefosoninofiporisegum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easternresources.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dajorusekunaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pajurioverslas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1303452784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/79485009088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsitecomvn.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/59702490996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oroblupiscine.it/userfiles/files/59188738451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents/files/78224202530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lompatjauh.com/contents/files/zimixatevenifosulasobigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhongzing.com/uploads/files/202109201457277249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mottaing.eu/userfiles/files/lidakadoxomudufabugigef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/38483967896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/41027559447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.info/userfiles/file/zatoluzosazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisioterapiasuzzara.it/userfiles/files/14964855951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pro9apps.com/app/webroot/files/uploadimagesfile/fimamalanosoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=hearthstone+crashing+iosPDF 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
font_00_sfnt_off0000b3ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3EF 16264 bytes
SHA-256: 663f3d71bcb6fb8d32835e3a3bc2391771ce99e8ea99821764163c37604c9400
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE205 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 37d14fe78e6b118eea604c93564eebfbfc3451d1bebdfd29bfe3174606e4cdac
font_03_sfnt_off0000f9ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9AE 17876 bytes
SHA-256: f20d1097ca49cd9d6cd819bc4438838a9d68e5935cc5d8bf09bd9e8f0c07e8aa