Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ceae7be9e53a8f33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 15:37:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: edabf6d1f316f1f2dae17a196f1c4b76 SHA-1: 8a93e45225547d014b44c4854eb3fdbe8b6511a3 SHA-256: ceae7be9e53a8f338f1814d9502fcf2d6e8f0aba30acb38baa0171233473db8d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a link farm on disposable hosting, further supporting this assessment. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hide+apps+calculator+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/5242828433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamnguoc.vn/img/files/45774019458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citadelcaralarms.com/userfiles/file/niroraviruxepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/madisasarotipuxerusonal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://semihkerpiccilervesupersound.com/upload/file/98825122436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szamosiszerviz.hu/feltoltott/files/9475926817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-summer-courses.eu/upload/files/birateginuwigekogekedisux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36224334976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeroseistudio.eu/userfiles/files/doxubezojisadibubumix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongsung114.com/files/fckeditor/file/8249121036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alirezamirmohammadi.com/images/upload/files/63790058567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xrtradingfeedback.com/cmsimages/file/92180340181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/rimokewezir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consol.hu/images/uploadedimages/file/sedogerakokatodemofimime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/vesinawalixolijatoruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichibaninfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30922199765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24209448415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vilus.cz/userfiles/file/19552977456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcserviszlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zegenagopasaxeli.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_off0000d792.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD792 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 491d63dd921cf66d31a860d06f0e301d50771c0a0d3ff47130e0e2c7e813bf9c
font_01_sfnt_off00010591.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10591 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011da8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA8 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 0cc040036ff4ee47918403e2b68922df1e3f903be6f0121e27525d02a390b6bc