Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8b49923980c910c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-29 07:16:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b2b4b00127bbd8636b231c5967ea6b81 SHA-1: 6acd02c9449468eda0eda8e87c86fb0d09c7a9ad SHA-256: c8b49923980c910c84688da2ad753f74012e49f5138ac71555efd8cdd6c6b00d
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 phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to PDF files on various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the true malicious destination. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to distribute malicious content through a network of disposable links. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a phishing attempt to deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://martonelektro.hu/files/file/32140744466.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brihat-group.com/assets/userfiles/files/zadexufoliguxugewuxobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digbijoynath.in/uploads/userfiles/files/11752407908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaroyalenews.com/userimages/18639369005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210910153343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdknoodles.co/uploads/files/35868684661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aesg2edcv.handylover.com/upload/files/61715082086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384923cf606---42522515647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidwoodmachine.com/d/files/dudoxiligevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fec26df85c---genasuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plaschke-partner.com/uploaded/file/pafevigexumojumuginib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapientgenerator.ru/files/userfiles/files/98349847538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acutecardio.ru/sadm_files/30928689475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akgoz.zemta.com/uploads/files/nubolijaxotoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/74285260081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/gowuwifaxoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soles2walk.com/data/file/56111460705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/86696265763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153b859b65f2---fiwogufimuvogurazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriraghavendratemple.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fafomemebefoxuwofeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/fewulitowelexolinuxulibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sankaibearing.com/userfiles/files/balakuzimewogikukebes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/20941971755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/59447960718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowlingkillers.com/imgdb/files/vizodepijizarixuzas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=i+want+to+download+java+gamesPDF 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_off0000b37a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB37A 15196 bytes
SHA-256: 98c279d0e0f9571b13d8c92087479467ac2c7c416f9e4fcfdcfa8efcc0d0c2ec
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9F9 10632 bytes
SHA-256: b41d82cf3784bf8ac844e61ed2e2c8164e726949d406678510acded1b243da5c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f232.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF232 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1