Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 268a02643bd43c18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 21:13:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 46f69e33d9c9b1944833488f2fb0dba3 SHA-1: af0cfb73388c883ddb25193d33e5192fa35b7bd1 SHA-256: 268a02643bd43c18c895aeacc03f8cbd7099790be720440a98511cae7f3a3304
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically flags it as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://architettosirocco.it/userfiles/files/53486787433.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kfoodntea.com/dataroom/file/6345859812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddhaart.in/userfiles/file/98786740298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/pabiforivazoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acelybio.com/upload/files/lazozavugosawoledepokamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hausdergesundheit.net/userfiles/files/daminogurazufuxizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139dfaf49689---foxesoxifinerowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2759e54636c3ee8549c08a7f9b44de26/33061855362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/50798255785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18767848174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.in/userfiles/file/lixosepamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cistenivytahu.cz/upload/file/40891745260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/gudiselomiwuwoxetajunazim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vssteel1999.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/silazuladiwidura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiecarriere.it/uploads/file/sefogasafaboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mousumibanerjee.com/fckimages/file/36932979059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astmasme.com/userData/board/file/40529353498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tyextractor.com/d/files/zejidadotexawuvitivupidal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5mal4.de/moneyvidya/web/images/userfiles/file/89236406827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://r4binsh4h9-att.com/contents/files/4230256690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autavrabek.cz/obrazky/file/kowabeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adrfarysz.pl/userfiles/file/200353105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noursportevents.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/gulugavepumefowus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+basketball+diaries+streamingPDF 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_off0000bb4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB4C 16808 bytes
SHA-256: bb23cc1a5c25cc6ecd4c0a5e1b7a58445f0f66dd710dfc765638733dc0711d37
font_01_sfnt_off0000e731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE731 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF48 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 878e31dfcb6611a73548f3774beb628acc906ec848dad901d23bd5875ecc0e54