Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5aff6853d6821d17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 05:54:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c00a6935eccac46eaf274e0c6eb797c3 SHA-1: 6d2c4bcdf98dd223e328e7c0a3edab6b68d8ff0c SHA-256: 5aff6853d6821d17128162a2d7dd33607367630e63c0431e57d35f60ebbdd9dd
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan variant. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct domains, one of which is explicitly identified as a "disposable link farm on disposable hosting". This suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://votejoedestefano.com/editorData/file/56294175669.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://girisimhaber.com/uploads/file/jukarugazubulomidedebor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///ganuketu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143b4fc1c864---34721413629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamayeshniroo.com/shop/file/71067884941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiemtoandongnghi.com/public/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68401030525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakoplus.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/budepizagenulepim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibonatura.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74949577742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslplastic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ganejigojuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheniou.handysociality.com/upload/files/nonozizerodulimulatar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-int.com/files/files/nosus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f85a082bd2bfa0b3e7fe304c43c33001/darifonekoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me/files/17858851583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sobav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infypos.com/infyposcms/media/12881386137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bramfordgc.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sitobumawuwixupoxixijej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefencedocumentary.ca/adminfiles/file/6919457497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/14929624280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techinnsrl.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/xoruniduwokinolanep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterteto.hu/userfiles/file/7979240231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/32866952422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namphuctourist.com/userfiles/file/nokulozuvoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/semewurepuzisuwedexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongdung.vn/ckeditor/images/files/68506435679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=circuit+training+app+for+androidPDF 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_off0000ead6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD6 17452 bytes
SHA-256: ebdff2f12571cd9f84f11ccdd4b9567fa6847780a3292abef05e6e4cebc5c21b
font_01_sfnt_off00011842.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11842 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013059.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13059 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 93c59404156b17760d5735900653d3d24e73ea6ef86040ab9abe42ba432e5fd2