Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 685c3ade837cfb09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 22:46:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 286e02e3404a7471af623d2e467eb2cb SHA-1: 17ba0d9d33416e14cd76a86dd07f0c7b9edf1ddc SHA-256: 685c3ade837cfb09e0911e460c33bcb367636dd957fc3e7d0ac1e6065abb4e1a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML and ClamAV, indicating malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic and the large number of extracted URLs suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the PDF and its numerous external links point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://kiemtoandongnghi.com/public/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ponom.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/31571155649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zobutubewimipasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crmsaas.dswip.com/ci/userfiles/files/38787512923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecachet.fr/docs/files/bevekegutefedonilafifedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/rugewatiditusadonuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dekexowemiseligu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danies.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muminupapusotuzitisuwiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upakuika.com/img/file/6281393280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/1708173284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkaganjil.com/contents/files/96609053547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a95fc48fa1---liwotijudepanepajazabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweet-sugar.de/images/uploadedimages/file/jokotalepafuzabebepanezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parkettworld.com/upload/files/93364299397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taimaobi.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vutawajawewizavuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istvietnam.com/rich_editor/file/10931421238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locnuocvietmy.com/Images_upload/files/zufurepavejobabazimewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsreloading.com/userfiles/files/zizimufonegiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megatex-plast.ru/pub/file/kaditokevixebox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59457896278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxxbs.com/uploadfiles/file/a/kifaleruxinojekelonazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmany.cucoriedka.sk/data/files/damusutodinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e94d1c7324899e9bca42f378df9ba6fc/gexob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=i+am+the+night+streamingPDF 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_off0000bf8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF8B 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 6551568b1e8222e250dd85e75b4e5ec2fa93df4f2e9ab96b736c29835ab3c702
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eebd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBD 17188 bytes
SHA-256: cbeab381b21b06d869decbd2d4ed5793840a806ca445a21606bb39ad595c1095