Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6be964bafe7a9e21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 17:21:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b44bf578fae918919c729ebc6e4091d4 SHA-1: 669af2908337c33000620c77b21bf59438b500b4 SHA-256: 6be964bafe7a9e2164edab5fac441738f477d337af7be7283875f25fcc718777
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically identifies it as a link farm on disposable hosting, with numerous distinct hosts and UTM parameters, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the ML classification strongly suggest an intent to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9189ebee952d01496d46a3fefdee4e7/zoxonaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://peoplehelppeople.net/uploads/File/88522800875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyklo-wellness-penzion-palice.cz/content/nivubitogekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142950740789---bofakafinami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/70197021142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.arcnet.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24872750732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machulski.com/public/file/feluxopimipofuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongshengchem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lupefidunakisakerawatig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinebuzz.be/uploads/userfiles/files/37840165698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pathtojanna.com/userfiles/files/40942125898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belv.ru/userfiles/file/91666909026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsugiadinhviet.com/upload/ck/files/16970016777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioichuyendong.info/app/webroot/upload/files/84595612084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianenricofabro.com/userfiles/files/6986726957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/bodapaxawaxusetefada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/tupakinin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/userimg/inc/58927240389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/pigubodejelerinonudimobak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutyasturak.hu/images/files/buponebifozafowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukat.dnsaktif.net/upload/files/kabelaxuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forexinc.ca/upload/editor/file/wexogugunadefupisaliteno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicfriend.vn/public/default/ckeditor/files/dinumewirewaguvadadusiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=can+we+recover+deleted+files+in+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_off0000b1f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1F6 16956 bytes
SHA-256: 22b1229cc8937fbf474d0b30bffeb8087c9dbd4d6d526964d758e6d78ad28fcc
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f451.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF451 10652 bytes
SHA-256: a9b672e25a102e05bcc15c282e0f84e820ced81b009fdd28dc1d9982b680421f