Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd4153b4893059a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 03:37:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 042251c95ed27ef0833b7c4911b586ea SHA-1: b881567c27b672686192b2ff7694d5b99c05fc85 SHA-256: cd4153b4893059a44cf80d0b2fb6d50154713983b51c249b874edc61e095ef23
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Numerous external URLs are embedded, many pointing to unknown PDF files, suggesting a distribution or phishing campaign. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://fygl.net/uploads/file/112332438004.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://flapboxes.com/userfiles/files/83181969733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkokmagnetwire.com/ecodev_test/image_system/files/56230452921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indianhairtransplant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guxepupepikuvijafogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohouse-lab.de/userfiles/file/bisoburonopomegulotijegug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmarysharipad.com/userfiles/file/nofopesatezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budoprojekt.eu/obrazy/file/72887181616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fratellilongoni.com/userfiles/files/rugujedotosizuniriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaunited.com/contents/files/wusobaxidibalif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jakketoes.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62256546371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbphoto.ca/resimler/files/zunur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.smartfutureexpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6449226982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhaxuongbinhduong.com/upload/files/93266939864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rts-wm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15357725616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modernplating.com/userfiles/file/23150200313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obrienbuilders.com/userfiles/file/wibibaloxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4rrecycle.com/files/file/87991165489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prshots.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mupirexijitapafewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marsalanoleggio.it/userfiles/files/xujut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffeetuanvang.com/Images_upload/files/poretamixipivoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351f82a3b7a---4513366474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/digixijit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23798914504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/78273294092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=metodo+palmer+pdfPDF 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_off0000c0c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0C2 18064 bytes
SHA-256: ce6b41808d997704f8ea95207c126b1b383eb53bb31e55b2bc7a3c7d1cbffbb4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f008.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF008 10288 bytes
SHA-256: f5f70c970b070b543a05959eb22ead5047fd396e9c9dc1444f62b457519f7e30
font_02_sfnt_off00010733.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10733 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1