Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd9b6ae1b487a548…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-27 08:46:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: bc9f6dd08870a738d5e3798628ffbf59 SHA-1: 71af9a069d5bade259321cecdc89ee72fc9ac865 SHA-256: cd9b6ae1b487a548329e1568709bcd238ab6d9f991674a22f02bdbfdf3b74e25
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious PDF files on various domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The `PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM` heuristic further supports this, identifying a pattern of disposable hosting and redirectors. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://bogaarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/zufone.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/3791971213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/gilanokamunabozupogulatek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/46814243950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espace-hotelier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19146027018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/94821307351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinghui.co/upload/ckimg/files/202109072030352818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/kexuvosuzadilabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/pewojaritosozuzopesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurempat.com/contents/files/81215221942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnaminsight.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/totojobasoroneli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cctsw.net/whly/up_files/FCK/file/20210914_101402_141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tienphat.vn/imagesflashupload/file/3878226687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/70664181332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aventura-agence.lu/userfiles/files/kezavosafesotuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk4education.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30367743032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210902170234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411d86764e2---lowatepelosagivasujude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/1975374264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltic-rt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lozilopemij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meditopthailand.com/file/tisomanamikuguwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celesteandtorsten.wedding/images/file/22033469893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martas.vodrsport.cz/uploads/files/58179692715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78256924199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeclinic.kr/userData/board/file/norozapodivakokejumugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=my+hero+academia+season+4+episode+14PDF 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_off0000b5e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5E1 17900 bytes
SHA-256: c34a5038c0b55abc006c6cbbd832348c28485d1ec0e686cee053774bb2ee3c24
font_01_sfnt_off0000e341.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE341 10872 bytes
SHA-256: e85d701c1e6509aff76e267f7055f548200818bc434f085642b0119259617f75
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1