Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc4a383d5b8ac8be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-23 00:05:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2af15c9ef40f3ee64939de0111f0c4dc SHA-1: 7d11cfe3820c2af17971b9c17869247566dc3515 SHA-256: cc4a383d5b8ac8be10f15587290dbfc56e994ab235e5d9aee0f9f8c3e3e46f63
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple external links, with several heuristics flagging it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=prince+of+persia+classic+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://lawrenceyezersky.com/userfiles/file/refejinovoleviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aydin-elektrik.com/resimler/files/26953833497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bordahusfeldolgozo.hu/editor_up/13156476502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slide-bearing.com/d/files/92178636372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhihepvb.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109092045136386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdsenlex.com/upload/files/xavaponedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stl-hk.net/userfiles/201903429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/72969359468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nzozkrowodrza.pl/uploads/editor/file/geforitisubititufakeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/52201117242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapp.fr/medias/files/fijosib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquamedicasatumare.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wepimefubetoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qv0h8k4nbu9rnp2499kd91frb4/jedigujogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.luthier-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gevefaxudumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/55126947655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/runajoxazozozudujexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambulatorioveterinariosismondi.eu/file/26225955579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omegaplus.bg/uploads/pages/files/govimamugaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnwebdesign.dk/userfiles/file/13038173672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmways.com/uploads/fckupload/file/dalakove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a938f26a33---kujavupepaxezalilap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dominopark.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23765867019.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_off0000c9b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1C9 10604 bytes
SHA-256: b130e5082018d4ce91f047e55269014266aa077acd841535b50b0cf4e1c1a951
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA20 17756 bytes
SHA-256: e15093884059736258c3cf85afe878e98532dd4c5da65c9262b8894444ac5a89