Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cda0d82b488600c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 22:23:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5a470b8bca099619a3c7902555e3fbff SHA-1: 84254272e056b1df0b8d1cf8eac9a9f4ec382c67 SHA-256: cda0d82b488600c8cf2b119e58826d0b1999ab8cae84ca46c1ea232c5b9d4c40
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to unknown or suspicious domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags the document as a link farm on disposable hosting, reinforcing the phishing or malware distribution vector. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://taxilitomerice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36277357437.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614630b23f4b8---87404692756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexxeopaint.com/upload/files/36542510117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ciela13.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/lomadojimixodepal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namhungholdings.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/potimepejadevedosokoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.tools/userfiles/files/17371786671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto826.vnpec.xyz/uploads/files/rupoxuvogunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscartridge.com/pic/lamimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/33178562156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/vufuxugusad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalathena.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53517373808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pozitron-s.ru/userfiles/file/77458328463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleanenergy.mn/uploads/files/xulubevamivibatogagef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servicedental.it/userfiles/files/82869267532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhodnoceni-penez.cz/is/images/FCKeditor/File/58533176580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135974cc0564---laxedimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/96437483106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://navoloki.mebel18.com/uploads/files/88423562911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/wizefuzibudeloxibobozika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/vixuzizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beamstraffic.com/amb/userfiles/file/mesunoxijurifebabivudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/pulaminilonajisenonag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aan.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuritunenasezejixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rencontres-icare.org/userfiles/file/nisidoseripoduwusuzuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/gomodaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=gear+club+true+racing+unlimited+moneyPDF 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_off0000e446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE446 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5D 10940 bytes
SHA-256: cca447bde73d7cf6a85bda619c0d76c16e761a6021e33a3cd38c64b238499755
font_02_sfnt_off00011578.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11578 17312 bytes
SHA-256: bc4a27227fe9fca4d53f84fea9480a21e3641f348790c79466969f0e2ef5f490