Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d946d53b4526a656…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 16:00:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 75cc323cbbd82f1501bd4ba6b85682f3 SHA-1: 74103730bd71580b6f61372a284ca5c60426027a SHA-256: d946d53b4526a6565ebdf9d4fb9ad2355ea15e9f7e3ec59a1559f1415e90d354
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the PDF is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point to a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nintendont+for+wii+u PDF link annotation
    • http://medicalproduct.hu/images/files/votafoworameruligaxibozap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movie2book.com/userfiles/file/xetiberebolifiravinewopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kietminhrivet.com/upload/files/nufopobusokate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefoster.com/pliki/tatonijipapegedakelupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613daced93134---wuxexedowupobomegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hlqh.net/userfiles/file/20210917223006_1554910308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derya.afmiletisimajansi.info/resimler/files/manevizumelipufosogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ldkl08qaq1e88gidp61qoe0mbc/gilekarolepoxenofiseme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtrak.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30229137220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inannamsao.com/uploads/files/91550730485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fisheaglesafaris.net/pics/user/file/67864257140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltes2.tw-goods.com/UserFiles/files/regixobevizoxazebow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumbulefendiegitimvakfi.com/resimler/files/9606895888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://r4binsh4h9-att.com/contents/files/rikivarutenabenukafixipom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuason.vn/upload/files/vimobefoxena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativetechno.in/userfiles/file/pobam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cheeselicious.net/UserFiles/file/wigekizaxavok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdjcm.com/upload/files/86878370827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctmcooper.com/userfiles/files/86605395480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macabrey-luthier.fr/data/Files/62364761742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siriraxikopirurime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ochronaskory.pl/pliki_user/File/55312807217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imdad-egypt.com/userfiles/file/wijovoxezugoniguduna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/kopovofifujagivutip.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_off0000e07d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE07D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f88f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF88F 18400 bytes
SHA-256: fad088cbfe34ed721729afa2bde80e49922d7e4ddcf8255f60ada7ada700d935
font_02_sfnt_off0001287a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1287A 10132 bytes
SHA-256: 7592547df02b06fb7ab93ec09ff06062489786b215bcfefa5c6a9f3fc862c185