Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f429864c6823b4a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 04:22:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c575fd82bec16eb95f39cf09aec087ff SHA-1: dff5f0c9d9a4416546abb61d559dcf4d50155b37 SHA-256: f429864c6823b4a885793c60e88b15465dda68c36d3371f8895b2335da1a8098
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 PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous distinct hosts, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of many unknown URLs further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0aade019d119c34647797cf18016187/58151262964.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.truckersplantparts.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42448814281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagymester.com/userfiles/file/doxafamopitatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/luruzegemudukuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sujitonweb.com/userfiles/files/tesiwivowinevosuxoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/rewedefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantipplaza.com/userfiles/file/raval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rtm-plus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gixexoneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-wonders.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/jepodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/roramem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calmoinc.com/upload/editor/file/nuxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/revekujupuxitopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himarco.ir/basefile/himarcoir/files/wijifenutirojuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kungfuclasshongkong.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79982956195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/dedadikotekadulowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leasingtowers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vibeserapov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kehlux.lu/userfiles/files/33461373981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvconstructionsgoa.com/pharma/admin/userfiles/file/rivujavisixupafirepifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden-expert.de/userfiles/file/gunefelijine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cd00991861---lopibaxizoluzosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandp-engineering.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buperakufepora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/57508145905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/32848309427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=play+store+app+for+pc+download+freePDF 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_off0000e131.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE131 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f943.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF943 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 83bfe0f938d54be3c736944db60115b2bac8222be2a232107700419418a787f5
font_02_sfnt_off000125a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125A8 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 5833dd7399c0478cfba54da9c6b6f302dbdb958fdcdad3e8f72f2c58e0b1b530