Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 679bb367260e3d1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 20:37:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: dfa8cf8a763c3b9ab12e724519aa46b9 SHA-1: 9c0f5f3d348f180b4db32dce28982112a93bf185 SHA-256: 679bb367260e3d1f7c331f70c365687f1f3a277e50c35c0d4342a296a411a140
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external PDF files hosted on disposable domains, likely to obscure the true malicious intent. The presence of a visual download button further supports a social engineering lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+pokemon+renegade+platinum PDF link annotation
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52043226371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kujatobibujutagijupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ct-tci.com/cttax/userfiles/files/93977280897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francoisdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72804139666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusbetaja2.com/contents/files/masotozoxuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homokkepek.hu/editor_up/vamivezevafarepotesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rent-lease-no1.com/userfiles/file/20210904163654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profession-your-dr.com/uploads/files/202109090504456959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trongtrucsolution.com/uploads/files/77015193554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuzeyilac.com/resimler/files/93267377437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mondoaudio.it/img/uploaded/file/bokikixosojodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomdatesuae.com/userfiles/files/42334883461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiwajikejugavuseforo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carnavaldemarbella.com/Senegal_5/Content/files/userfiles/file/pupakagodejuzud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161391a5334236---63754653972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofly.om-digitalsolutions.cn/upload/files/49604155683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71139085638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livredart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91448106670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/pobekewikosefavorumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoachathoanggia.com/userfiles/file/panowerezajofolabixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leasing.net.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sivodizomikapugit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldoris.com/upfile/files/20210901063710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e30150fcd---xefebedumexomuxumugovobit.pdfIn 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://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_off0000d51f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD51F 17596 bytes
SHA-256: 3bf4fef0813833ab480adde1e2af54e45e9392367495aa8e4e622bb90bc2278f
font_01_sfnt_off000102f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F6 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 70854f4b314781f6d805ea0cf87abfc0bee0cb50b14d0ac6630039937e0c4722
font_02_sfnt_off00011bcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BCB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1