Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcd275a83b6e06a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.2 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:36:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: cbd70fea24876fefe3b7dd8044d548c2 SHA-1: f890b522dc123f1ddbbabffe140bb8f5c817caa1 SHA-256: fcd275a83b6e06a1070d1fbedae7bd9383551449f6db0ba6934672d329878d4b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as link farms, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URI heuristics and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM rule further support this. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the overall structure and URL distribution suggest a malicious document designed to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+improve+touch+response+android PDF link annotation
    • http://masterkontroll.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97143019086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://om-ar.com/userfiles/file/45260686841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalholidayproperty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fononorifanarovoxera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/debuwavebubajumulazip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/japikirisuvifidusug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokaichenyu.com/upload/files/valalenojuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/tametepakiwidonolaratep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smartusb.info/images/library/File/somubitofudiwuruneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espwireless.net/uploads/file/durokeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meubelenindex.nl/images/uploads/bimobisenebipozutupebubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotykbylinky.sk/_subory/subory/tixofogilazujej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuvutubofake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confidence-ist.mktechsol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85556631968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preciseenergygroup.com/media/sivaseviniwekatizowuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parejalecaros.com/adjunto/upload/fck/files/zodiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/ruxolunutovomoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec416c7376---mabesowesulolewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altronic.pl/!mag2011/userfiles/file/lemanukanexezokafifabeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceylanotel.com/firma/files/xudiweletatasozavedafefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/vazusirukupikilupakigimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/89491683539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/99640433407.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001258c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1258C 10976 bytes
SHA-256: d0b9928583518d7cbe06b8d5de7ef3d3bdecd325a11fe6bb072407d1d41299eb
font_01_sfnt_off00013ee3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EE3 18368 bytes
SHA-256: e11427e6a601a0e3817fb1ed0a1adab14626ebacfed2b2dbe257588e1a61e662
font_02_sfnt_off00016ed0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16ED0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1