Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c967441349dfce1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-10 21:28:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bda06213285a25ff50b1ea39032c7b43 SHA-1: f970b85d96d6093ee0866617733106d1e9b85482 SHA-256: c967441349dfce1c8e5ca33dcc51ec4cccc930559a4bf90bd1c4637ff1b3bd1b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or low-reputation, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://foundationkuzmanov.com/files/53133078364.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://intervalhousehamilton.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vosoluvej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sexualaufklaerung-schule.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51480300638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nzozkrowodrza.pl/uploads/editor/file/fevuzunifuvimoxarabirevak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khachsandomino.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/tulukovekusodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le383.com/uploads/files/zojosigariwubon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madeirashopping.com/userfiles/file/23941220040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tjp2-hotlink-j3t.com/contents/files/1091723229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--lenachatka-57b.pl/uploaded/file/63966589717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139c7b339b68---11461029700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370de30651f---28458139761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/rejuxowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tensoinox.com/userfiles/files/92598045677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghotam.com/luutru/files/nowugiliwufopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/dedetak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomdatesuae.com/userfiles/files/zaxobofefepusazimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/5638555681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restaurant-lyons.fr/userfiles/file/jegiwipujezejexududajuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jakketoes.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12243328277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quizai.com/uploads/files/latupafirakiwulaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/59284902782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnv-cnc.gr/userfiles/file/2353228292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/90263932138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klhl.com/userfiles/file/duvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/66309382145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpti.ru/userfiles/file/27343841069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=explain+android+architecturePDF 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_off0000b54b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB54B 14820 bytes
SHA-256: a784f2ba19a44db058acf8ad4b7fd257b131a5fba6f1eba84a0fe3347bf49407
font_01_sfnt_off0000da58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA58 10628 bytes
SHA-256: b6a89b9822f05c9da46c8a8a48c93e4fcff564ddc072f5f8efc6ce92d143f500
font_02_sfnt_off0000f287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF287 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1