Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e50785ba46b2c0b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-29 14:11:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 54e29aff5ef0de2eb8f549070ac098f4 SHA-1: 59c5f1868ecd0bf203d7af96f61a2cd9cc45754b SHA-256: e50785ba46b2c0b9582a5916e2ad020cd961be2bca936425ead60bd909cd47b4
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are likely part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a deliberate effort to create a network of disposable hosting for these links. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the link farm structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=controller+friendly+android+games PDF link annotation
    • http://cn-biyoute.com/d/files/38743865016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kietminhrivet.com/upload/files/sezubodoweli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altstudio.be/app/webroot/uploads/file/zulisuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speedwayinfo.hu/uploads/file/90866954207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlight.cz/archiv/file/mojutefug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labellebeaute.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39324706703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cecev.com/stockages/files/nesezisorinivotaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipsclubcr.com/campannas/file/69124195361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/wavenozokivaganosuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/94842280176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/28568557654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdesignhouse.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/73471065157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cb6dc7df73ba83cede3272354da2b5f/46134128592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/nuxaleki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/98408461169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/fimadixomuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147bec032821---balajepalupek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/80926508542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexxyin.net/files/fckeditor/file/12601536581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piphoto.tw/uploads/files/202109120750081236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moto-bike.pl/userfiles/file/93519382622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basalyemek.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87644101556.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_off0000afba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFBA 10840 bytes
SHA-256: b11307ead554e6615ba357e4f1b0a181186267db8a5904cc338d2a6966524152
font_01_sfnt_off0000c88c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC88C 16240 bytes
SHA-256: fcd20692cf43ee8619aaef11cf67dd7f329d21bcba6f4229eca2c8f8d1328d7f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF208 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1