Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0e9a30ad8108484…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-10-02 15:47:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0f31a5dbe35b6040c1992cfb22c8b96f SHA-1: bb99f76a464a9716ad2e7deafcc98b6d2aba6617 SHA-256: d0e9a30ad8108484393b2cd835778da485e104345383805d43715207e3d597e4
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload or lead users to credential harvesting pages. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and distribute malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mei+a+level+maths+forces+and+motion+in+2d+topic+assessment+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://bigbulkbags.ahmadpackages.com/survey/userfiles/files/nemaneza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonmathunglan.vn/upload/files/27895083749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonsakai.com/uploads/files/nawikudimebipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekitchendesignstudio.org/uploads/files/85510719724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulendengin.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vuxagozojalesuvakofugub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0j46829b5tbmjg9kt21m70jukh/vufepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walterchiropracticclinic.com/home/walter/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46607866191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkstores.gr/userfiles/file/96665900336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teranor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10344786223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosantomauro.it/userfiles/files/80674998745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srsatta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70624484618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peusch.lu/userfiles/files/33756576310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-11/20210911093357860875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgns5ctkn3utncu5g8ch9mpa04/zajepanijoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/lozuwetemulalotenodesib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinepravenconsultant.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/jaxeremavexilikubizibami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.organicemall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/javesofitamipafid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/2021982229208617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/19446635748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11038521340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flex-link.cn/uploadfiles/files/vinowixumebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.net/files/files/zijaru.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_off0000b2d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2D4 11148 bytes
SHA-256: ca83477a89e25da8edab49436aa2948448b65798ca79685d054040d3cda535f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000ccc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCC6 17400 bytes
SHA-256: e589d891f80b3a7da897333dcb3ecafdd49a35d88e8409e981e382237945da89
font_02_sfnt_off0000f93e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF93E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1