Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd0540be1d0816d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 15:27:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4de1af5f89591a4f1cffee21d17da738 SHA-1: be8db5c0fb6690ef65fb942c9f53fb87bb9346bd SHA-256: cd0540be1d0816d6e6da97d336bd5acaa082c23f8a2f1d78a5834be695418e17
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this by indicating the PDF is part of a link farm on disposable hosting, commonly used to obscure malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://lse.hu/userfiles/file/35785837444.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://style4.allwebeasy.com/userfiles/files/xezedoposavulufiwoniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valstybestarnyba.com/upckfinder/files/7148952034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naves.cz/res/file/49142658287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.be/assets/file/20960302247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/19969619913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7344446261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdpq.hungminhits.com/files/uploaded/files/16600070877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workontext.ru/media/file/41147292792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everestart.com/images/stories/file/51607875116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locthanhwindow.com/img_duhoc/files/rototawijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7mark3t2-7aya.com/contents/files/xinilamimulafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/duvavixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtylek.pl/Upload/file/8216765381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161419d7659e7e---toxujamulefunigexori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langfordfinancialservices.com/userfiles/files/71517169028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conganbacgiang.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/73269912188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/bifapiloxorarabolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silverk.ru/img/lib/file/62887135202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyermo.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/27819696882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanghuydulich.vn/img_duhoc/files/96239751033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.peaceofworld.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/19005520715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=redmi+note+8+ufsPDF link annotation
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/73952492878.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_off0000cb21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e338.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE338 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 5e0a0381c0990b3e8fe471f9ab0af92b6af937b416834dbc2feb763232c70b56
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB53 18400 bytes
SHA-256: be2592d98db50d722ae24db210cdac961e5890426c34f5a2c820cc2a1b961fee