Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 697c864275a10906…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-04-17 05:33:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f17f5346f9b2796d5654ffc8703e01bb SHA-1: d80d8c979ef283c756ab80c704f41e9770757dd0 SHA-256: 697c864275a109065007f16108ba41447ebb0649d376db14902791d939b8f4c6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm or redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to hotel booking websites, likely serving as a lure to entice users to click on the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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 contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://fokemale.ru/strik?utm_term=best+hotel+booking+websites+2019 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444626/normal_60551bde26d9c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446944/normal_604cd6f977d99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447487/normal_602051046c50d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4484356/normal_5fe64932342f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489257/normal_6040df1f43fe0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418370/normal_6030f927af667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boost-store.net/schlage_door_lock_reset0ag3n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomogorman.com/pusosekadipadagajuwuz3djtr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4403689/normal_5ff2fec8d7f15.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fivamoxopel.epizy.com/64368812846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d2ea4bfc-f92a-4379-acf2-d9b69981ddb7.filesusr.com/ugd/739437_4fd3a5cb6df34f65b4ceedd7565a1ef2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e0d0d77b-4c00-4265-bc22-f0cc5cf11ada.filesusr.com/ugd/957eb4_5321a206dbaf41748a9986a3f13d01fe.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://835a0401-7144-467e-aacc-710587930ffc.filesusr.com/ugd/432cba_605cf2240ca54d1c80eb05cf0fa638fb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4a186b80-4ac6-445d-8d5e-72f53a326e88/wendy_nutrition_chili_cheese_fries.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fb79ad55-22b5-4823-9538-35c71bbbd514.filesusr.com/ugd/ea423f_87d73acd6d864b91904934a4592b18ad.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://risuzapusujafeg.rf.gd/is_hp_envy_4500_inkjet_or_laser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/21fdc8c2-1d9d-426c-b08c-d6b7b62655cd/what_is_a_law_school_personal_statement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7f3356c1-ec1f-498a-9d41-5b36c14d87b7.filesusr.com/ugd/98d33d_2a3ba2f479584ed69ce2c21a617849d8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f533e1dd-9384-4a52-a148-7e6bf7b11e70/wireless-n_wifi_repeater_configure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jetelusaxidu.epizy.com/bmp_format_image_file.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10300 5468 bytes
SHA-256: c5d70f7114aaa25535fd954f7bfcade739685fd30c39b87a46cb5d8d8e95690e
font_01_sfnt_off000115bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115BF 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 1ad1b9b3afe0df14c91bbe9f42b7bdf65db0949ff0771a393b24d8d6fce63dbc