Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2458c38471749a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 23:16:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1cadfd8da26a9d2156f544072fe2796f SHA-1: a523ae964566f586923cba9dcd877835c3e4fab1 SHA-256: e2458c38471749a0fb69f76f12f66e27efd0ce477fd2cd5b50e6fce4f73abe93
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm hosted on disposable domains, with numerous external URIs pointing to potentially malicious content. The presence of many unknown-reputation URLs suggests an attempt to direct users to phishing or malware download sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apps+hide+karne+wala+app PDF link annotation
    • https://gulamanis.com/contents/files/56843199611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/rerebesoritewolal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.com/userfiles/files/nepomev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbcehyodmtf1czh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/75465628174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcserpenti.com/userfiles/file/vunagisisox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jngf.cn/files/file/vukopigijejedefuxipigizuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rococosofa.com/files/files/54516334462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/juvabifibiruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/kerozuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8444592700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/21162959889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-intelli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuzeferiraxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egymast-segito.hu/uploaded/fck/file/39732220218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papienbanana.com/user_file/file/54425472323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/53247004678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.com/files/files/litilenufukazazawokivujes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/78869218271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oasis-travel.ro/files/36234939427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/vuzewezibimagevotibuzal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikra-ekb.ru/files/fckeditor/file/womufipupuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrospizzadb.com/uploads/files/44854610968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cc07e89620---14646247618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/15683629360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d74a6580c---50693208400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex-ter.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suvorebimatikejixor.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_off0000e4ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD01 18320 bytes
SHA-256: 2b0eac4b2be0cd5924a1a66c6298303acfe1c120f19790e839ed7e6e8b16b973
font_02_sfnt_off00012c97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C97 10428 bytes
SHA-256: f9da7a19f29de84d93b8035b01a50ff0ca2bafe527d5ccaba12e36c71122db38