Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec649532a65c8971…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 07:01:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 23995e506ee23b910058f6ccd8bbfc9d SHA-1: 2f98b79211fce404739e94b89c4af594a9b23537 SHA-256: ec649532a65c897158081f4c99e0543bea93413c41f903fe0982eb2219bcb2ec
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm PDF, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious or phishing sites. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically flags the document for containing many links on disposable hosting, suggesting a tactic to evade detection or distribute malware. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL findings point to a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://www.lircai.com/web/inline/file/716219096.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/38305942582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gopherscopes.com/userfiles/file/76992762620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/pizeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjiangchem.com/upload/files/fopejesugadexilolufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heninrealty.com/userfiles/files/mojaxifojuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laundrybyconrads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/57983276689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tobn56.com/UpFiles/file/70140486819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/begekovogavoranavemep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giant-nano.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/zanemavojajurejapivunudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/38525940861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/29155257765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dobre-akce.cz/media/files/file/31352523582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/zazukibejixifilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capriololaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/29882388507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibliotekaludwin.pl/img/upload/files/93308941680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciccioinpentola.com/userfiles/files/78948458046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://concurs-euclid.ro/upload/fck/92799137756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portecitadelle.portecitadelle.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90981798865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madveras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rizuzexedube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mantyobras.com/userfiles/file/18959247223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bbbb966121---99962753055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipwillettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bijarowuregejosevov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabsangram.com/userfiles/file/44462860916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jaegeraviation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sugewomamaxiwidazoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=g+se+start+hone+wale+wordPDF 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_off0000ed9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED9B 10380 bytes
SHA-256: b33fb2cdf620d9a5a51315198e252e6a3f4b38c6234fa236689cbe972d4343f8
font_01_sfnt_off00010529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10529 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D3B 18672 bytes
SHA-256: 87ae0f0b6ede4ff117f0ac56d482861167def9c0b10618ef3fbf9f3674efab31