Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d496f30e40ef3aa5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 20:31:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9db4f0b1eb7c571b8a63fc03f90767cf SHA-1: eadd670ae0137082c997c8a0e35a279d316790bf SHA-256: d496f30e40ef3aa5f83e4885f40c3fc1cc709e25ac34b173640206cf3d1c2de6
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 pointing to various domains, many of which are identified as part of a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this is not a legitimate document but rather a tool for SEO manipulation or distributing further malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the link farm heuristic point towards a phishing or malicious content distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://trivio.it/userfiles/files/62764780322.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://majedalkarkhi.com/pics/file/dopizojusagemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cristal-in.fr/userfiles/file/vodalel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.beautyvogue.ch/Files/file/28653579245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbariatprasice.sk/upload/file/vodaxudefanose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtarrytowndeli.com/uploads/files/fenoxorowuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pallenberg-busreisen.de/uploads/files/rokikabazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/rijotirapize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908125643139797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careerexpo.alljobsinliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94522968950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petrovsky14.ru/docs/files/16189516191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/18552802808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanyangsteel.com/files/fckeditor/file/18769993446131783b778eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/41675250088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emcp-pmce.ca/_includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nefalezebupefefupapemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kalaxofaniragaxoxoxunel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fe74c5eef8---36379765659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f6322c1eea99d55b3cc71bf580be1b3/91110746042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinivetmadonnadirosa.eu/userfiles/files/ginomuwurigazuwagaluke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockeit.com/userfiles/file/zitizijilevudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualityroofinnandsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/gebuwafoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkingparts.com/Upfiles/file/suvuwapopopikemexinaxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=anatomy+and+physiology+book+12th+editionPDF 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_off0000e411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE411 11236 bytes
SHA-256: da270826bf631c9d477c4a5e04a6d21736448856beab4104235c77415cc4653d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDEC 19520 bytes
SHA-256: 956db0498e2eb561148d1dfc479d766e7179449ef48aa653492adbcfb1502860
font_02_sfnt_off000130a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1