Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccae031b81b4f3b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-25 23:54:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 766b1889b34c716637148857073d501b SHA-1: a4e7099367ebbaeaa7af9b077848e158089c9faa SHA-256: ccae031b81b4f3b3959570ac74f174b44a7bfee17ffa996919fd961ff957e2f4
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to disposable hosting and appear to function as a link farm, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing attempts. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly suggest a spearphishing attachment delivery vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wallpaper+app+maker PDF link annotation
    • https://agrando.cz/files/file/65635338783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belniig.by/public/file/vomexanawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willbramephotography.com/65252701274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekorob.pl/userfiles/file/50768875868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-park.es/img/uploads/files/60656527598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castel.lu/userfiles/files/bozinatawadagosamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limblength-sldf.com/userfiles/file/xenogaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/zuzawosoxiveguvefuzat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luatsuavina.com/userfiles/file/66082286543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taperagi.com/contents/files/lazezovidejanuwosanakake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/gozijusuwamozegefazuxifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconfam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65343099973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbr68m374v9ktdd9ar9rjja12f/55132045298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickendaylacrescenta.com/uploads/files/81383411249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mundolibre.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/71599829669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://open.ua/uploads/ckeditor/files/duvuvuxuvaxupofipasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4lc237bailas0aok179n7i83ck/60685933440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ned.ru/uploads/files/benefisinidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/defoniwexofudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/54105236139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/52632520593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbu.vn/Images_upload/files/fofafepewexak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/97183609416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/xujagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slxiang.com/v15/Upload/file/20219181948443310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/28969293848.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_off0000b44a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB44A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC60 9916 bytes
SHA-256: 8901be0a7cdd0c8309117fabccd030f2bc7e9db066617cf5de12dc266ff95bf8
font_02_sfnt_off0000e243.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE243 15300 bytes
SHA-256: 79b74da4c1b01d31a92aa1a9bf6a9197beea60c91a5555ad720fd24b4c637e85