Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3f1e6b0b37758eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 23:34:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 5f546a2e0a7e88620b6ff2a6f8b5b57e SHA-1: 7d7be59810d3609cce78053c27f252760ce7bd6e SHA-256: d3f1e6b0b37758ebfb7829d0f06e4a25584cf8485e0b694ec5b128caf8ce845b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable or unknown hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of external URIs are indicative of a phishing or malware delivery attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://newsru.md/upload/userfiles/files/betijesetuvalutirota.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://farmacieitaliane.com/documenti/file/83871192178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-miyaco.com/img/file/20219245034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tour-paris-guide.com/cite_imgs/file/tudejetevokari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58898658743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luckysurface.itweald.com/uploads/files/6136739b5fe6e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/6279882600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketex.com/trcgp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24378214953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/78093681212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ensky-chemical.com/upload/files/28404013108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/50381352052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sikixeronenexitegubuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/1934240542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gourmethousemacau.com/UploadFilesfile///wujiviriwagefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicilalluminio.it/userfiles/files/gajejezorejogax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentaruedas.com/files/others/68399970692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmrealty360degree.in/userfiles/file/69248110826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/182fc3e04c3eeb95417dd18f3244e0db/kexobokikowijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tyrtaios.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7895149727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/tomupuxotilavamaderuxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tainandentist.com/uploads/files/202109021727344696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classoft.ro/userfiles/file/fujinikadevexaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energywork.pl/userfiles/file/vidotemowozej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/86934065559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=orange+is+not+the+only+fruit+pdfPDF 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_off0000e273.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE273 18736 bytes
SHA-256: 1fbd04ab360ecf59fa5b2b6d94c0a308c9b6f4b06652f0fc58cbc1c459b5c3ca
font_01_sfnt_off00011313.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11313 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B2A 11016 bytes
SHA-256: f325852bac143a5491d05e588672479b4f0b117ab0d0ce0e314b76ef9c8012d4