Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3980ec71cd81525f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-05-17 17:04:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: fbc30febd468851c29f70aab3cabe37e SHA-1: 6898e174a63cefeb866473315e2d3fdbe4b96433 SHA-256: 3980ec71cd81525fb3abd191bc3a289f152621e0b9d7518bd521ffc3530a9255
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic confirms this behavior, highlighting the use of 26 distinct hosts with a low number of links per host.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://buyfastedcircle.xyz/exemple_dialogue_entretien_dembauchy7qrf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xikewimuvos.iblogger.org/45155375868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijmalan.xyz/99117683672jwsuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishland.store/kiplinger_retirement_report_change_of_addressjm7j7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4367296/normal_5fe0febaf1d0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuvenumine.mygamesonline.org/arquitectura_viva_78.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basiditdcf.space/zizilo6dqq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krokoboko6.xyz/animal_crossing_new_horizons_hybrid_flower_garden56ejv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366664/normal_5ff009834442d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avit0.pro/sokapalofufaxosaterokavon517o.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xofebuledat.scienceontheweb.net/the_worst_mistake_in_the_history_of_the_human_race_article.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fito4ka.xyz/puzomudopibobodipude6e79k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kebuwakuje.medianewsonline.com/butterfly_bts_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forajadafogaxuv.medianewsonline.com/65022819013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigpleasure.ru/mijebidinizijavugri0em.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badge-verification-center.com/454966133528mf55.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410986/normal_600ea13ae3f3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486566/normal_602d47258f919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rifimakegezibor.22web.org/58670341770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturka.space/paisabazaar_credit_score_passwordyijx6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wb/ENAH/~3/jJyWpsOf3IE/wb?keyword=what%20do%20the%20number%20605%20meaningPDF link annotation
    • https://cc0b58a5-7bf4-4b41-9cd7-d9bc0cd2cc6f.filesusr.com/ugd/6dc98b_59be0bff1f6940d08fedda99799fe296.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e05bdd54-7536-4db1-b7ed-110d7b12163e.filesusr.com/ugd/dd5a80_e8f7171de3d64f91afb60d7690d095ef.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gunitolowed.rf.gd/telovarinurowesilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f621ecf8-e26c-4db3-9bdf-176eeceb312d.filesusr.com/ugd/b3755e_3a8075aaf17a4ce597b61407326319cc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a4346b84-4611-49ab-b113-80c9188ca613.filesusr.com/ugd/078c79_6c80ff47de47441d884467c328622034.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://novogizeboje.myartsonline.com/muvufonumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pixelub.rf.gd/modernist_cuisine_volume_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9f61dd91-ea7e-4edc-a837-c43fae5dccfb.filesusr.com/ugd/ed897c_08ad956565c645539453f7573872dac8.pdf?index=trueIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010237.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10237 5604 bytes
SHA-256: e52f893f5fef290267c6bdfbed877516770011521a2e69e501cc70c9cb20e252
font_01_sfnt_off00011521.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11521 10616 bytes
SHA-256: b1a73fcf9fb0863936efb954246dc36abe93e2215331b0b0d0b4251a954e0733