Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8408c985f371ddf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-25 05:52:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c44b8473d59b03872f2de8eb8e5b89f0 SHA-1: dd120abce2a79c31560f4bdd3d350fde1e94b71c SHA-256: d8408c985f371ddf1b57db1cadfadd4050ec1efe76e99560bc01da86759a7552
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample 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 domains that appear to be part of a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior, suggesting the PDF is designed to redirect users through multiple sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/debefogudurimuwasirubawa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://liubeauty.com/luutru/files/laromud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zh-huaxun.com/uploadfiles/files/35367580607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sov.tranovice.org/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pijukesejane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fivelscope.net/fckimages/93569659689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weldingportal.it/userfiles/file/sopiwerutaparotapukemogap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariekevanvlierden.nl/survey/userfiles/files/24706392010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/66577241097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/82873063573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tylbm.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/bamim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garantc.ru/userfiles/file/zujazomosutujakimipaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escalierdurire.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62643891461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushichoice.com/uploads/files/5730939732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/bedusujejevawobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usarsenal.it/userfiles/files/70695548029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubensova16.cz/files/file/kukewalusiteku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://as-eng.biz/userfiles/file/75479465116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141141e6d339---dovixat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusbetaja2.com/contents/files/zovegiwazezatuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ca052dc3b---64423085317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitvaartverzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/7706452725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/96423891805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opt-russtd.ru/data_center/upload_pictures/file/47406322015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilsports.ro/userfiles/file///zusimudataxamavixaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radiosalsa.fr/php/rs/filesupload/file/82506628655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=machine+learning+for+text+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_off0000b40d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB40D 16700 bytes
SHA-256: 742d0f2863eb4b017eb67ee568962c1772d91edfa0402af024b280f687f42d5e
font_01_sfnt_off0000df02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f719.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF719 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 34f7e79b30945df7d7b2ee9190143528568cc8b87fee642a997433e371ced760