Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7eefc76c3ebdbca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 20:57:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2a8a67d6976084eaedfa55aec6172a8c SHA-1: 758f609d52b4be7eeb8aef7d8cc77f6dc94e5aca SHA-256: d7eefc76c3ebdbca5d22371e33ab39100877174be9c99bb4ce8dc0d6cd64fa7c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs pointing to disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are consistent with a malicious document designed to exploit user curiosity for free downloads.

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=oxford+university+press+books+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/muwizerawipapipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdom.vn/userfiles/file/25492631900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/zatetodazujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wu-pao.com/upfiles/editor/files/semisalepudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmacieitaliane.com/documenti/file/5604187990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcgsgeds.friendship-match.com/upload/files/63998164828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestwingspa.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/19034347634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sierrainstruments.cn/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202109/file/nonadovamonemukadowibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jisodevugipasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litroshaber.net/resimler/files/guvaponojalutitis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cbg9dihj7egda2g6a7dceb1d2cp4nvgf4f.com/datas/files/xoronivem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://positiveforce.in/uploads/files/taxitosokukufurufejek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/userfiles/file/puzen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b934464830---64547767596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74326413665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dytac.hk/userfiles/80065700466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95469641088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpaxis.net/userfiles/file/xenevuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dudulazituzanidalugazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memsports.com.br/admin/libs/ckeditor/ckfinder/files/dufurunedawagas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casavacanzesanvito.eu/userfiles/files/96921174450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/86795414325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfort8889.com/upload/files/tupivorafudavugefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-motorcycle.tw/upload/emotorcycle/files/vomovuxegotada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakedua.com/contents/files/95472350965.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_off0000d860.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD860 18876 bytes
SHA-256: 17fb4c8b373cbcd76419c9b60b4613b02708bcaa2313e8f1659d670d4cfe4c76
font_01_sfnt_off00010953.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10953 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 54f395b015f0523a3a055f452ac583de60720303e0a3a4bdf23e57e153f36c1b
font_02_sfnt_off0001239f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1239F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1