Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dad7ee5c94756ff1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 04:21:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a14ff932a079daef9a29badc75a1f698 SHA-1: 9ea32b74c332d36ee84278810bf2d9a26d43d634 SHA-256: dad7ee5c94756ff1e1c1aab9715cc6f2c33b0ae587b2e773d34d8883f7e61041
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a medium-severity rule indicating it's a link farm on disposable hosting. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to PDF files on various domains, support the conclusion that this document is part of a link farm. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest a malicious intent, likely related to SEO manipulation or distributing further malicious content. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further reinforces the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://postelezmasivu-olomouc.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28049665107.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://coytex.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/towupetavojupizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/lejisebibibofiletave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bedrucken24.de/userfiles/file/26823597347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://losungversorger.com/product/file/38464808750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/14302122440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pujcovnanaradi-tvarozna.cz/userfiles/files/zogumabepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolky.info/foto/images/file/3197315862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136bc00df0ec---68918995162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misr-consult.com/userfiles/file/40454304503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://odlingfamily.com/userfiles/file/29671242195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/51803520416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladulceseguros.ar/noticias/fckeditor/file/76123743490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2q7v8paaovb3e45oe1a51meo0e/vasapubakixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakesup.org/userfiles/file/41460452816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonsuadogo.org/Images_upload/files/24198371906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pzhjintai.com/upload/files/neberiketeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210906_021104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henseltech.cz/userfiles/file/37511633944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22659061959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.org/contents/files/9181316716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/patararivufutawopetexaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainbowprinter.com/app/webroot/files/file/zapajazusixaluged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=championship+manager+androidPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ca95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA95 16148 bytes
SHA-256: b17e3c388ca520c70044df51a505a8c8de3d1ca9b2e495c629779bc8d31aca59
font_01_sfnt_off0000e01b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE01B 1680 bytes
SHA-256: 6c08887b596ecb472c5a0482df8c2f828d83fc5b5d16111ed0caa1fced1b35dc
font_02_sfnt_off0000e813.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE813 23028 bytes
SHA-256: 6dbda2727a2503b9ddae4d80c9a912ea8bee97353d5ebc103ea70c4ff925b656
font_03_sfnt_off000121ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_04_sfnt_off000139d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139D1 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 3b06677b8a96e7db37139109de0ff32f1a9fd14eebb523bafe627d92db4b16e7