Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef8c59a48dde4ccf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 06:30:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 414f5173524c6880cb02c0b2f17472cc SHA-1: d7f4f07d6fb1fe430a54db5b8c8dd7f18177a5ef SHA-256: ef8c59a48dde4ccf2eeedeca99cae2fc48729a152cba0a52e941d6eeeb39079b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable or unknown domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure malicious links. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 http://mikol-styl.cz/userfiles/file/51004702851.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iburgisidimarsala.eu/userfiles/files/riwasimutelitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thy-environment.com/userfiles/files/kejulofexanemoweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etpatatietpatata.com/userfiles/files/46139470831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e0ff310765---nokase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44031472661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents/files/monolozupefunodewupoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poliinc.com/upload/files/46585928822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westfallassociates.com/documents/file/63946166991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhtractor.com/d/files/jowezopevuvozisozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://equipociclistaugeraga.com/ciclistas/userfiles/file/55893028284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/35902938612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northcoteplaza.com/userfiles/file/76090820079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edilgroupdigiovanni.it/userfiles/files/26505793604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldtradezone.com/userfiles/file/timevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warungmimpishio2.com/contents/files/2155680084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanoonkaraj.ir/dbmanager/filebank/htmlgallery/file///97458795385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skillmapmagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zogufarowivivarikajojax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riasztoszolnok.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/51603092600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oxigensupplies.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/23894740045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatfailogistics.com/fckeditor/files/file/jiferotekugarodujuvet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/36446718529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maksimetall.ru/files/22090863711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.southdownscellars.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35276711980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///36711077957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-18/20210918171227721263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leguido.net/files/lirerinusadedesazuvaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=best+game+android+2019PDF 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_off0000eb4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB4D 11060 bytes
SHA-256: c250c44a012d726ebd876d969164684fd57281273e448fa77d29ca89d3d4766f
font_01_sfnt_off000104f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F5 17632 bytes
SHA-256: 9f4f183e1dfedaec0a2be2002555a559f17234a407a7166fcec298d45ddd6a9a
font_02_sfnt_off0001327d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1327D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1