Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d28af3174bc24f17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

134.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 01:00:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7f1d32c62b3ecc7fb2abbf0b1911a37c SHA-1: fd63e72da7a5db109e1873f64b31c56286dbf3a5 SHA-256: d28af3174bc24f17d5249667d19be66d7d080b584eba2d8ec3dd0adb8a705629
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs and is flagged as a link farm, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://bushregenerators.com/userfiles/files/lolufimopulomevisewo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rejs2013.cycling-recycling.eu/imgturysta/files/11299710436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiospazioambiente.it/userfiles/files/moxadelolemivef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamhosting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53358794676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/mured.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettelhaiphong.me/data/dulieu/files/24197234836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siangyun.com/upfiles/editor/files/68878624198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhopalliteraturefestival.com/mpsdp/uploads/files/93952700292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portamarioarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/44393961351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safe-international.com/userfiles/file/xopexilakil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhcoaching.com/userfiles/files/44098060923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapfenberger-schuetzenverein.at/userfiles/file/92632002444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rqconsultores.com/userfiles/file/xenutovokumudulabika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/17927302883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161398cb860f50---76155619580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/888af76dc45a0cc3385703935d7e108d/nakakewivogatebutezotutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/wiwesupefesudejimaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/18824727798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/ratogukora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euchebnici.com/img/file/dotumimesopasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.com/ressource/site-image/files/nuvupimudosovudodesodid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.galiantsolutions.com/emailimages/file/sitilamal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio5r.com/userfiles/files/50763209809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn--19-kmcm3c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xowaduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/62103269624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=suicide+squad+2019+full+moviePDF 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_off0001a783.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A783 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001bf95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BF95 19624 bytes
SHA-256: 550dbb65822a4bcc44a6f7e31221f7142fef4226199d332bf3fd6b40069b95e7
font_02_sfnt_off0001f35e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F35E 11184 bytes
SHA-256: a7b43abb184a8d317e027b80787b44bf2a4ba8ec5aace635578ec1d57b74a37b