Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e920ec052543da16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 16:58:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ea032bfbb941dc99f7eff9819d19604c SHA-1: a20853875fdf17a951f1516243998889b79002ed SHA-256: e920ec052543da1634446a0234c987031392babb7a33f421323de7dceda4f30e
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it is a link farm on disposable domains. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to PDFs on various domains, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://www.farmaciavictoriayjmleon.com/userfiles/files/fanekuxejoxalus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/8275561314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/pimabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/38465014275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giaynangchieucao.com/userfiles/file/87446897905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-burbank.com/uploads/files/darusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/pakowonesetutukotusali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://numere-mopede.ro/mm/file/33138000701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sananselmo.com/wysiwygfiles/file/kubikoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.salpasafarit.fi/tiedostot/files/41075931599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showpalmedical.com/userfiles/rixadomesixafugumusepada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preiswerte-unterkunft-papenburg.de/mediapool/xenepagikimonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dulsuc.cl/userfiles/file/21389519223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/kokukuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pushtypathshala.com/demo/aims/files/images/files/14489820693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paardenwelzijnscheck.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/50027996115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mftelhas.com.br/adm/Editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rolivikaserabavoxonixaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613abb5b42e16---98241281233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/lomusojuxetowinojobet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laihoawedding.com/app/webroot/upload/files/37634438198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobiliteit.nu/files/30558308049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac80e7c3c5---32881943821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88277973035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birutelorasin.com/contents/files/salufudefovapepagunututim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=sms+apk+proPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b474.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB474 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC86 18832 bytes
SHA-256: d35defe3f98b2817c51c8fb5391fbcec1cc847f4045f2bab6444d10361cca370
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC92 10108 bytes
SHA-256: a908739ea8364890cb39904af103d781aeb489eac8a30f08183b9a2f067b3ef5
font_03_sfnt_off00011310.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11310 1992 bytes
SHA-256: ae69dc4be48a3dcef88e0433f31e45e8182f8a349d24b8694bbb8cf25996c3f3