Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d18e0d39e1961471…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-26 08:25:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 217f0e89d0d4a1ea852462cedb17ad12 SHA-1: f393890c488108781c10cc38276de439be8248ac SHA-256: d18e0d39e196147124bcd95a4bd702b59049ec804c83e7bdc3c2133d9e00503f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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 http://geobigoni.it/userfiles/files/45878560926.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rszm88.com/upfolder/e/files/20210905095924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balmybnb.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/65140366145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viquadro.com/userfiles/files/xinalebaterozorar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anglarill.net/userfiles/file/9414911662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svb-volleyball.de/userfiles/file/96343302750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofagiani.eu/userfiles/files/45064855244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hearing-outlet.com/uploads/files/202109171822265101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osstemcardiotec.com/files/fckeditor/file/80128216661463a75d5821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rulifolod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-spa-resorts.com/dok/57718272469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychebiengoduykhuong.com/media/ftp/file/28278679311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a4e89eca18---ganoviwubejatamagopiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yantrasearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pesererizibozakit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiquital.com/documentos/file/64680200383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talentfuturesservices.com/sharpinstitute/images/files/51660394639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanthueviet.vn/img_data/files/41111043771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersonassoc.com/emailimages/file/48776437252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lambanghieuquangcaogiare.net/vietkiendo/upload/file/71110446134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfollowers.com/ci/userfiles/files/65878390513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/bejujuxenevesegaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppntassone.it/dati/upload/file/zelijoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eptesteplelek.com/uploads/file/bonapimokimagiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613635c1bc5db---23176875384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testsitehq.com/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/gukiregasefiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=endothermic+and+exothermic+reactions+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000b036.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB036 14780 bytes
SHA-256: 55f824883baeab91476889b4b4012e6a16882544845d467548872745cab457f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000d522.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD522 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 06bcdd8151684e82462d12a8b5a88dba6c6927b7ab1f1ef20eb76a09107d4360
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1