Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f638a330a75bf1ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 12:33:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2e0b4713ff444d3b489e25c2dead5118 SHA-1: 88d75e1f455e6e3260b014fad341e99c85d053e5 SHA-256: f638a330a75bf1ef920f10be47c0d90a84cd7d6f78493cb803a9c0179c77dc1c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URLs, with one heuristic identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links indicates an intent to redirect the user to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=american+accent+training+grammar+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f8c793d2b6---xurozusinenutax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportservistocik.cz/UserFiles/File/zurenenogutavulud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weldingplaza.com/files/file/28705440326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xingzhongjing.com/userfiles/file/20210902131329_1122921028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borgopitti.it/userfiles/file/33007597834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/zidotekijapawugudisawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlmahtani.com/userfiles/files/xasijizeferob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://justbuymeds.net/userfiles/file/bolobamenoguvis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultrabeauty-ff.ru/userfiles/file/10408840341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91006948677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldapromosyon.com/calisma2/files/uploads/34385563424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girl0229960192.com/upload/users/files/8052385993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopetrilli.it/userfiles/files/11378075564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85069004021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e06a8542e6---kixidaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastcoastbiker.de/sites/default/files/file/42065677818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nagsa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kajigibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbaze.lv/images/userfiles/files/lapovenozan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140621e59eff---47432405241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatsah.com/webroot/img/files/vekoleririgumifumixowejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stefanourso.com/public/userfiles/file/94537968705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/40783593890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongrentangthai.com/UserFiles/file/bileposujiguzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimsball.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1375327772.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bc50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC50 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 2d4fbf5d2627ba519ba005be7ece62cc4985be74d0747b97c3c34d428530519e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d452.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD452 16720 bytes
SHA-256: 19b32a5b46872493f28fa23150d67e0f3170d0e6439f284fb1157b35cdd1e665
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00011745.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11745 16836 bytes
SHA-256: 645820c595d4038498db028c8b5d80835908cfe6b43d33359db03e6d05944cee