Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f604647a0706036…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 02:58:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6320cfbb0c6f23bc5a100aa12effdde0 SHA-1: 6701b26786d3d0dfb5bc982edc39d0cb954aca17 SHA-256: 2f604647a0706036acbf432690f33638ed95df0b5a4f45d6568f625c83b6a76e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to evade detection by distributing links across many low-reputation hosts. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious document used for initial access.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://kheops-so.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32082059573.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/71836680704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praktijkbinnenstad.nl/file/jobazebufagudera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nollve.com/img/editor/image/file/70431301493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://headrepublic.pl/images/files/rapekafuzejejotaraxeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khaskhaan.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/tofibogoxuxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/lobasugetekuwukax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/45889675298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/84169709186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanphatinst.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/80772765127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mondoaudio.it/img/uploaded/file/jexaluzabubimozikejetales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/larojufupakazino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/lurowinonolowidepelemisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ystechpro.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/dosixirorupefozopul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingscolley.com/uploads/files/pevezamaviralawisugedat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metrosecuritynepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/9251800631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://excellencetogether.com/img/files/file/82295945877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchterreni.it/userfiles/files/sakuwumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virus-safe-zone.com/ckupload/files/14106796232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectionistpaintingnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rewaduripedavekilumozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tosunimibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf140c539ac5a0f66703cada5ca83eee/binodufusabebon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents/files/15577440913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukasikgroup.pl/Image/files/78154934393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29215737362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=good+phone+launchersPDF 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_off0000c0e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0E2 17116 bytes
SHA-256: 6525707dc4a48e4dafea7bd1cf94e12ee3c178a2c9e0b4b05f3011145a300237
font_01_sfnt_off0000eca0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000104b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B7 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 0dc74b5d22409b5aa3abdbad865f3cf287ecd7d3d9f19eb7f102bb8f12915fe0