Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 268dbe651b622b8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-10-13 02:18:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 1a1812e4dec590563f4f0d77e2daa829 SHA-1: 54053fc2f6881f816876ec9082229ea405774936 SHA-256: 268dbe651b622b8fe2f09d2f1a1e51657c07812b158d7ef0d2016354009f8152
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm directing users to multiple external PDF files. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests a tactic to obscure the true malicious destination by using numerous distinct, disposable hosts. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the PDF and its embedded links strongly suggests it is part of a phishing or malware distribution chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://ombs.ru/uploads/files/parop.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kubermatkaplay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pagakolojozesapafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drterrace.com/london-100.com/userfiles/file/75706817184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziazsauto.com/uploads/files/bitupusakizitud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88161679304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dangeloremodeling.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/77212711780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarna-zapiekanki.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36730183780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddhr0ahn1htol1284hf5u6gcj1/fijuluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/rufuxutazetozititanutos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-st.nl/bestanden/files/dopunelumuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/070032015476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/417149799771633316472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vialivonica.eu/userfiles/files/bonibisefajilogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1347504fa8ff25d6fb21eea93d6bf83f/ralanuvutesadozifonufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furnitura-syndicat.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/sepifonexol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/jomajeradav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamday.com/userfiles/file/42436030380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kentacademymiango.com/userfiles/file/44199193191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lire-les-notes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kesenidowixaneno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ciesol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/banodepon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quartierdete.fr/uploads/fckeditor/file/53618230115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/Z3ufxtS7Wvw/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+definition+of+sum+in+mathPDF 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_off0000be47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d65e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD65E 10564 bytes
SHA-256: beefa0156342a98f183da8ee67243e9af8265965292161fe446d9c8db4ab6a30
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE50 17824 bytes
SHA-256: d6511df43e89d720ad7c64fe616de59eeef790da0377cb7cbe6f9ded51dee37f