Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dba6daf986f0261f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-25 03:02:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: dc12ffa293f2b62b2acf0027f7af73df SHA-1: 701985cfb7855cd62e228989522fd8f7769b7766 SHA-256: dba6daf986f0261f6e6db5d1608d17ec20aa6e00eb9dfcd85095979419cdf26f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains or link farms, suggesting a phishing or credential harvesting campaign. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically flags this behavior, and the presence of external URIs further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://martas.vodrsport.cz/uploads/files/72381530853.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dpsszczytno.pl/photo/file/tunewolus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxiluzern.ch/khurasan/userfiles/files/53512919708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c71fa80138a85157a1d6eef2eaec285/75573882750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22755961474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archgeo-leszno.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/sewesanewit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/baburakagatisojuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texinpack.com/uploadfile/file///2021090700321655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwwilson.com/uploads/files/99434604342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebillionbottom.com/business_school/uploads/file/5758401807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/rawisikupobavonel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://censcakmu.org/board/file/files/savuvigofosimutafupagofux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/56862515271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradhelferlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dalolorazapatinipar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210917_CA930A58C38A9F10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libyamonitor.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pexikita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockeit.com/userfiles/file/20823711053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614238daa5f38---ronevese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dafelia.com/files/41923033659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/topemozilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/94468497432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/geduremaxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://styropapex.pl/userfiles/file/lesofepemijetapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satyavnetworks.com/fck_upload_images/file/jozisulaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anpharma.net/upload/files/zipajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://priscar.com/documents/files/50102233599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=connect+mi+tv+with+mobilePDF 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_off0000b102.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB102 10388 bytes
SHA-256: e0eea6d1bb277393f41d114dcdeda5c537853ac9c870ad989e57802e7c86447e
font_01_sfnt_off0000c856.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC856 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE068 16640 bytes
SHA-256: 4f030c5b1c1c62f2a27e8b71ffae1ff27930d6dff1db36e1ab8d8912a524b971