Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd11571d9666f5e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

137.6 KB Created: 2021-10-05 19:02:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 94e7f9be04f081c67d67603e5a24dd6c SHA-1: 90b5d2b3ed7e82f541914a230468f4f78815341e SHA-256: cd11571d9666f5e651d6d8acff9b646d4f2518afe2e840cd4ebc527ec906123d
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, with one identified as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the detection signatures point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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 http://unibox.lv/files/text/korefepuzawubepasozugifo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://taxfirma.com/userfiles/file/28494043409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://billionbosses.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/visisamodugozixumokojixaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/18653334231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pfmconsulting.org/survey/userfiles/files/wonejake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthopediedelft.eu/files/wumasufekabavupax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85367230045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nevjegykiraly.hu/userfiles/files/63380436574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esen.life/userfiles/file/48998454933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/jazulegogafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garankuccu.com/upload/fckimagesfile/59e37132597510b840471d09301bd785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161477ef0011bc---17580805043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanhebiotech.com/upload/files/39627853996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fovemugulagisirurajujele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zgkimsteszew.pl/img/upload/files/vidoxijigesalunilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriagasthiyarastro.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/lamum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicimanis.com/contents/files/25582603050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainbowprinter.com/app/webroot/files/file/26294726588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/gadejezozize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mexico-airport-transfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13581772983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/waromafararukumanap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emblem4home.com/UserFiles/Member/File/30351480522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangshi-you.com/uploads/files/202109230225327213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613462c55b64c---wegete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=light+pencil+drawingPDF 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_off0001b5dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B5DD 19736 bytes
SHA-256: cc59c3d99bfa9b6c8c250394f4737dd11c4b72c4b64c601b79f73c9a18165fa9
font_01_sfnt_off0001e8ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E8AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000200c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x200C3 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 3be4803711f0adc1253c10b25f44b5def3c5be6664ca52edd822b1b0c88c8d3d